On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.me...@suse.com>wrote:
> Hi guys, > > On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 10:54 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 12:23 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > > > this patch appears to change the default format for printing via CUPS > > > from PDF to PostScript. this was changed from PostScript to PDF in > OOo 3.3. > > > > Urk ! - right, reverting that is not a good fix. > > So - in fact; having consulted internally and read a few bugzilla > bugs > - I think it is perhaps quite a good fix; we have things like: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442#c5 > > Which look scary; Johannes maintains CUPS at SUSE, and his view is > that > we should be careful here; he suggested having an IMHO un-usable option > in the print dialog to select which meta-file-format (hmm). > > So - (I guess) perhaps (reluctantly) turning this back to generate > .PS > output is the right answer cf. > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44664 > > Having said that - it's clearly nice to help out with improving > CUPS - > so I recommend we default to PS, unless we're in "Experimental mode" > where we use PDF instead (?). > > How does that sound ? Any chance of tweaking the patch to do that > Lior > - and thanks for the catch ! :-) > I can try, but I need hints/pointers for this experimental mode (let me remind you I'm not a programmer). CCing Jaroslav Krejci who provided the patch in the first place. Kaplan
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