On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 16:16 +0000, Michael Meeks 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 (?).
Hmm, I dunno. We only got two direct reports to Fedora of landscape truncation and one appears to be fixed for ages now, and the other in a deprecated print driver whose replacement doesn't appear to have the problem. context for twaugh: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44664 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2012-November/040819.html caolanm->twaugh: what's your impression of the best contemporary default print format to provide to cups ? C. _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice