OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

Posted Apr 2, 2007 6:56 UTC (Mon) by MortFurd (guest, #9389)
In reply to: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released by Wol
Parent article: OpenOffice.org 2.2 released

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:
Have them print to a virtual postscript printer. Use Ghostscript to resize and reposition the labels, then print to the users' real printer.

I was a manual setup for each user that needed to print labels, but that's better than no labels.

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