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OpenOffice.org 2.2 releasedOpenOffice.org 2.2 releasedPosted Mar 30, 2007 18:00 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by nix Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released
I just hate bl**dy Postscript!
I've had postscript printers that crashed, and once it started your only fix was to throw the document away and start again ...
I don't know why, but I cannot get an A4 pdf document to print cleanly on to an A4 sheet of paper - it either lines up the document edge with the printer PRINTABLE edge (so the document is offset slightly to the bottom right), or "shrinks the document to fit" so the A4 image fits inside the A4 printable margins and is not quite the size it's supposed to be ... etc etc.
Give me PCL or some other simple printer language where "what you send is what you get", not something completely different ...
Oh - and I think they've fixed it now (it was a very old SuSE) - but why when I told CUPS *NOT* to auto-discover printers, did it think doing a network scan was a good idea?!?! SuSE support got a right earful over that!
lpd may be basic, but it's simple, and it works.
Cheers,
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OpenOffice.org 2.2 released Posted Mar 31, 2007 14:09 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] lpd and LPRng also support filters that can be arbitrary programs ratherthan having to conform to a rather odd API.
On my todo list (not near the top) is implementing command wrappers for
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released Posted Apr 2, 2007 6:56 UTC (Mon) by MortFurd (guest, #9389) [Link] And I LOVE bloody postscript. My experiences with printing seem absolutely opposite yours. I find that pdf files print more consistently using postscript, and psotscript is much easier to manipulate when something goes wrong.
We have a database system that generates mailing labels from an enormous database. The vendor provided templates only worked properly if you were using a particular brand and model printer. The program provides the labels as a pdf file. The vendor took over a year to fix the problem, in the mean time I've got users ripping out their (and my) hair over labels that print so wrong as to be unusable.
Solution:
I was a manual setup for each user that needed to print labels, but that's better than no labels.
OpenOffice.org 2.2 released Posted Apr 11, 2007 0:40 UTC (Wed) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link] Your problem sounds more like Acroread and less like Postscript.
Acroread's default configuration is to scale a page, down to fit into margins, just as you describe. But at least it remembers when one changes that configuration. In addition, it defaults to Letter page format (and one can not change this default, at least I don't know how), the page format has to be changed at every 1st print of a program run; without that the page is positioned wrongly.
Postscript and CUPS does none of this scaling. If you use Acroread, look at your print configuration.
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