John Jason Jordan wrote:
OO.o 1.93.129 on Ubuntu-64 Breezy (no, it can't be upgraded because
no .deb files exist yet)
This has been driving me crazy for a long time and it's time to bitch
about it.
1) When I go to print a document to any of my big Laserjets, half the
features of the printer are not listed in the print dialog box, even
obvious things like paper tray selection. If I print from Scribus they
ARE listed, and they are all listed in CUPS too, so the problem is
somewhere in OO.o.
OOo actually cares about the constraints in the PostScript Printer
Descriptions (PPD) it gets from CUPS. Example: before you can actually
use Tray 2 many a PPD will state that Tray 2 is optional because tray 2
is actually a hardware option that may or may not be installed.
Therefore the corresponding PPD will have a constrain that says one can
select Tray 2 only if it is installed. You can do this by switching to
the "device" tab page in the printer properties dialog. Only after you
have enabled said Tray 2 (in our example) you can select Tray 2 as
output bin.
The same is true for many paper formats; they are constrained to the
corresponding input tray being installed.
If you cannot select a feature then this is usually due to the PPD that
OOo gets from CUPS.
2) Of the few features that do appear in the print dialog box (e.g.,
duplex v. simplex, PostScript level, color v. grayscale, color depth),
none are "sticky." Every time I go to print a document the dialog box
comes up simplex, 24-bit color from driver, etc., so I have to go
through and reset them to 8-bit grayscale, duplex, PostScript level 2,
and so on. This is so annoying. Why can't it remember at least how I
last printed this document as part of the document file? And why can't
I set these things in Preferences somewhere?
Use the spadmin program for that purpose which is OOo's printer
administration utility.
Just my 2 cents, pl
--
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day;
if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
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