Re: default CUPS printing format Re: [PATCH] fdo#44664: printer truncates Landscape orientation pages to ...

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Michael Meeks <michael.meeks@suse.com>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 (?).
>
>         How does that sound ? Any chance of tweaking the patch to do that
> Lior
> - and thanks for the catch ! :-)

I can try, but I need hints/pointers for this experimental mode (let me
remind you I'm not a programmer).

CCing Jaroslav Krejci who provided the patch in the first place.

Kaplan