FS#7527 - Adding pdf printer for openoffice-base 2.2.1-2 using spadmin does not work
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Opened by Petros Moisiadis (Ernest0x) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 11:09 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 15 July 2007, 10:36 GMT
Opened by Petros Moisiadis (Ernest0x) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 11:09 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 15 July 2007, 10:36 GMT
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Cannot add a new pdf printer for openoffice using spadmin. Additional info: Package used: Openoffice 2.2.1-2 Steps to reproduce: - run 'spadmin' from terminal - New Printer... - Select "Connect a PDF Converter" - Select "The default Driver" - Type the command you want (I use "/usr/bin/gtklp") - Enter a name - Finish - The just created printer is NOT added to the list of installed printers If I downgrade to 2.2.0-4 package, everything works fine and a new printer is added to the list of installed printers. |
This task depends upon
so it seems it works for me.
I have also found that the printer commands are stored in ~/.openoffice.org2/user/psprint/psprint.conf. This file survives the upgrade from 2.2.0-4 to 2.2.1-2, however 2.2.1-2 does not "see" the printers.
I think you should reinstall internal ppds. cups-pdf is nice for only printing to pdf. However, printing to pdf is not my point here. Besides, we can always export to pdf from file menu. What I am concerned about is that the printing wizard of openoffice is not powerful enough. It does not provide options such as multiple pages per sheet, even/odd pages selection, printing margins (with scaling), layout, brightness/gamma correction, etc. All these features are provided by more powerful front-ends such as gtklp and kprinter and the way to use these from openoffice is by adding them as pdf converters. Though, in that case, no pdf conversion takes place. We just pipe postscript to these frontends.