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FS#7527 - Adding pdf printer for openoffice-base 2.2.1-2 using spadmin does not work

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
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
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.05 Duke
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
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

Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 15 July 2007, 10:36 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 13:52 GMT
i'm using Xfce and took the preconfigured command /usr/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile="(OUTFILE)" - and the printer was added. i can also choose it when printing from the file menu.

so it seems it works for me.
Comment by Petros Moisiadis (Ernest0x) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 19:22 GMT
I' m using Xfce too. It doesn't matter though, since I have also tried it from a kde session.
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.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 20:44 GMT
we removed internal ppds from OOo as we use cups as printing engine. you can easyly use the cups-pdf-printer as i described.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Thursday, 28 June 2007, 20:47 GMT
install cups-pdf and add the pdf printer in the cups interface.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 01 July 2007, 14:40 GMT
reopened on this request:
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.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 13 July 2007, 21:46 GMT
can this be closed? last pkg does contain again the ppds.
Comment by Petros Moisiadis (Ernest0x) - Saturday, 14 July 2007, 15:06 GMT
Yes, it can be closed. Thank you for adding back the ppds. :)

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