Hi,
the CUPS print system that is used on Linux and other Unix operating
systems is switching its file format from PostScript to PDF. As part of
this OpenOffice.org should switch its print output file format to PDF,
too. This was implemented in OOo for issue 94173.
The correspoding CWS pdfprint is going "Ready for QA" today and since
this affects an area where we should have broad testing with a variety
of systems and printers, I put an install set of the CWS at:
ftp://qa-upload.services.openoffice.org/pdfprint/linux-x86/OOo_DEV300m86_Linux_x86_install-arc_en-US.tar.gz
Please feel free to check this install set and see if it gives you
printing related trouble. Ideally this change should be transparent for
the user, that is you print your documents just as you did before. The
only visible change is that "Print to file" would now produce PDF
instead of PostScript; also you can switch the behavior back to the old
one in either the (not well known) spadmin utility or per print job: in
the Print dialog open "Properties..." , go to the "Device" TabPage and
change the "Printer Language type" to either PDF or the desired
PostScript Level.
Kind regards, pl
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