Hi,
On 9/2/10 1:50 PM, Rene Engelhard wrote:
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 01:31:51PM +0200, Philipp Lohmann wrote:
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.
When is CUPS switching/did it switch? Do I read it right in the issue that
CUPS>= 1.2 uses PDF, whereas older ones will use PS? This will be OK, as
Supposedly that is so. Certainly Till Kamppeter knows much more about
that than me. Anyway since the CUPS print API just says "print this
file" and does filtering for PDF and PostScript since its beginnings (as
did lpd before it), the actual change is fairly localized to OOo itself.
1.2 is so ancient. But if a newer CUPS switches, do we need some new versioned
dependency?
I don't think so, at least that is what Till told me.
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
^
.. and not to be used when using CUPS ...
You can do now; however the changes will not affect your CUPS
configuration only OOo. This is only thought as a solution for weird
cases where you encounter a problem with PDF and really really want to
fallback to PostScript printing; you can make this persistent with
spadmin now. And such problems I'd like to know about so they can be
addressed before 3.4 is released. Ideally before the CWS hits the
master, but such changes tend to produce issues only seen later on.
You're of course right, normally you should use the CUPS admin tool of
the distribution for printer configuration.
Kind regards, pl
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