On a couple of occasions, I've had CUPS give me -weird- output on the printers whereas either dumping the raw file, or using LPRng (or the like) worked fine. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess that OO _is_ doing something "bad" with the PS, and CUPS isn't handling it very well. Were I you, I'd try LPRng -- I've never had a glitch (though, I suppose, its printer support may be less broad. Dunno anymore, and don't really care. "It Just Works(tm)")
-Ken On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote: > I posted this to the OO list and didn't get any help except to confirm > that other people's files work as badly for me as my own files do. I > don't know what to think: If it's an OO problem then they must be > generating bad postscript. (But other people can print the postscript?) > OTOH, if it's a gv/ghostview problem, then why does my printer not print > the file? I'm totally stumpolafied. Also, I discovered today that I'm > having the same problem on my RH-7.3 machine at work. I did upgrade from > j2re-1.3.1 to 1.4.1 but it doesn't fix anything. > > I'm tossing it out here on the chance that people's linux experience would > outweigh the number of windoze guys hanging out on the OO mailinglist. > > Thanks guys. Anything would be better than what I got now. :-( > > -- > -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - > -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ > -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- > -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:00:48 -0400 (EDT) > From: Steven W. Orr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Open Office User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [users] Problems printing. (This time I have more info to present.) > > I can not print from OO if I create a document. Here's the whole story. > > I create a truly minimal document which only says the word Hello. > > Before saving it I go to print it to a file. The file is called x1.ps > It can be found at http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.ps > > I go to view that file with gv under linux. gv will not display the file > complaining: > > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) > Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) > Serial number of failed request: 36 > Current serial number in output stream: 36 > > So then I save the file as an sxw (native format) and restart OO with the > saved file. Once again I print to a file. This time you can see it as > http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x2.ps > Also, the sxw file is at > http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.sxw > > But, trust me, it only differs by the date internally. > > I even save it as a Word doc file > http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.doc > > and try to print from that which yields > http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x4.ps > No difference. > > Now the fun: I view x1.ps using kghostview and for some magic reason, that > works. From there, I print to PDF format which yields > http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x2.pdf > > I can view x2.pdf just fine using xpdf and from there I can print to x3.ps > which *is* viewable by gv. (BTW, gv is just a pretty front end to > ghostview. And also, they perform identically.) X3.ps can be seen here: > http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x3.ps > > I happen to be running Red Hat 7.3 with jre-1.3.1 and OO 1.0.1. I happen > to be running CUPS instead of LPRng. > > And just one more little item, just to screw you up even further: If > someone sends me a uSoft Word doc, it will print just fine. So it seems > that the only problems I'm having are the docs that I try to create > myself. > > Also, my printer seems to be working fine. The resolution is properly set > to PostScript at 600 DPI in both CUPS and in OO. > > I really need this working and I don't have the vaguest clue how to fix > it. Someone, please? > > -- > -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - > -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ > -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- > -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
