From: Thomas Knierim<tknierim@web.de>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] can't print to pages on a single side of paper
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Saturday, 29 October, 2011, 15:24
OK, that's some kind of confusing:
Using Ubuntu everything works out of the box! Where is the
difference to other distributions?
The Versions are nearly the same:
Cups:
- OpenSuse: 1.5
- Archlinux: 1.5
- ubuntu: 1.5
Ghostscript
- Opensuse: 9.00
- Archlinux: 9.04
- ubuntu: 9.04
hplip
- Opensuse: 3.11.10
- Archlinux: 3.11.10
- ubuntu: 3.11.7
libreoffice:
- Opensuse: 3.4.2 OOO340m1 (Build: 1206)
- Archlinux: 3.4.3 (build unknown since Archlinux is not
installed this moment)
- ubuntu: 3.4.3 OOO340m1 (build 302)
So I go back and install archlinux again to see what
happens if I install hplip 3.11.7.
Am 29.10.2011 um 01:59 schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions:
Sorry, I just say the Device option tap showing PDF as
the default. I do not know what "PDF" means in this
context, since my printers may have that as a printer
language type, as far as I remember. My HP Inkjet is
not a postscript printer, but my Color Laser might be able
to deal with that. I did not see Postscript as an
option for the Epson inkjet. I sure did not read it
having a PDF language option. So something is not
right. Could PDF here mean "Printer Defined Format"
for the language used?
Can the Postscript type "level from driver" be kept as
the "default" option somehow? Maybe the "Printer
Administration" shown was a module of LO 3.4 [at least with
Ubuntu]? I believe that module of LO was designed to
set up the printers to run properly with LO.
--------------
CUPS-PDF - no package for OpenSUSE? I
wondered what OpenSUSE uses as a replacement package, so I
looked it up on the site.
On the opensuse.org site, 12.1 is in RC till November
16th. I searched the packages and there are 3 rpm
package files [depending on the computer] for
cups-pdf-2.5.1-1.1
If I read the site correctly, 12.1 is the
"opensuse/factory" development version since it still is in
development till November 16th. So the search for the
cups pdf package in that and the other version come up with
a .rpm file to download and install it. So it should
be in the OpenSUSE version of a repository.
http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=cups+pdf&baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory〈=en&exclude_debug=true
<http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=cups+pdf&baseproject=openSUSE%3AFactory〈=en&exclude_debug=true>
I wonder why it was not part of the ISO that you
downloaded to install OpenSUSE?
Actually I had trouble with OpenSUSE, the one time I
tried using it. I have an IBM server that originally
had SUSE installed on it, so the icon tag showed. But
I bought it with the OS, and everything else, wiped off the
3 SCSI drives that 2002 era P-4 IBM server had. So I
downloaded OpenSUSE [3 or 4 years ago] and tried to install
it, but it would not install. So I ended using an old
copy of Win2000/pro till I ended up putting Ubuntu on it 2
years ago. So I never had any luck with
OpenSUSE. If they do not include, in their ISOs,
something as simple as the PDF package that is part of the
CUPS printer environment, I do not know what to think. My Epson printer uses a driver that
uses CUPS as its backend
so I can print using Linux computers.
Do not get me wrong, OpenSUSE might be a great Linux
OS, since businesses are what it tends to be what it is
marketed towards, but I just had one bad experience and did
not look back. I use Ubuntu, and other people tell me
to try "such-n-such" Linux distro since they think it is the
best you can get. We have one person on this board
that is involved in developing the Mandriva, which was
Mandrake. I was taught Linux using Mandrake 7.x, back
10 to 11 years ago [if I remember correctly, and I still
have a CD of it]. That one is in the top 10 of the
list of distros I came across on a distro watch site. OpenSUSE is on that list as well. Arch
Linux is
considered an advanced user distro while OpenSUSE is a
"middle-of-the-road" one. Their terms, not mine. But
we each have our favorite ones. I have mine and you
have yours. That it what it should be.
On 10/28/2011 12:04 PM, Thomas Knierim wrote:
Hi
Am 28.10.2011 um 15:36 schrieb webmaster for
Kracked Press Productions:
I do not know about why PDF is set as the
default for that printer. I never saw an HP printer
use PDF as a default language for the printer.
The Printer Language is set by LibreOffice. If you
open the print dialog, klick on the printer and then on
properties you get a new window. Select the tab device and
here you have the printer language PDF (don't know if the
Words of the tab etc. are correct since I use a german
version). Again: setting this to PostScript (Level of the
Driver) resolves the problem - but that are too much clicks
for a print job.
Did you download and install the HP drivers
for Linux? Here is the link to the site.
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
Yes I have the newest Version installed. The most
recent version is 3.11.10...
I have two HP printers. Color Laserjet
2600n and PSC1410. I needed these updated drivers to
make the printers work the best for Ubuntu Linux. When
you run the file in the Terminal [instructions are given on
the site], it should ask about which OS and printer you
have, before you download the needed file. Then when
you run the script, it will download everything that is
needed and install the needed packages for you.
This may help, if you did not install the
drivers. I found that the drivers included with Ubuntu
10.04 was not as good as the most up-to-date ones from that
site.
The system shows the OS for SUSE 11.3 and
11.4, and you will have to page down the printer list a long
way to get to your printer, after you select OfficeJet Pro
as the type of printer. I do not see ArchLinux, but
you should be able to use the driver from the parent OS like
Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, etc., whatever it is. It
shows the same version for the package as you listed, but so
did Ubuntu, but for some reason when I installed the version
from this site, it seemed to work better. Actually, I
just realized that I am running an older version than is
online, so I will be upgrading it myself.
IF you still have the problems, make sure you
use the non-PDF language for your default printer
language. HP's language or Postscript language is
preferred.
... PDF is set in LibreOffice (see above) :(
As for CUPS, did you install CUPS-PDF from
your package manager? That is my default way to print
out PDF files, even from LibreOffice [most of the time].
In OpenSuse 12.1 (standard) there is no package
called cups-pdf
As for the 2 pages per sheet, the orientation
for the sheet should be landscape. If it is otherwise,
then there is a problem.
On 10/28/2011 08:38 AM, Thomas Knierim wrote:
Hi everybody,
this is my first post in a mailing list -
so please be patient.
I have a strange problem - and I have to
admint: I don't know if it belongs to llibreoffice only. So
here is the Problem:
I'm using a HP Officjet Pro k8600dn and I
can't print to pages on a sheet of paper. If I start a print
job the paper gets loaded and the printer hangs. I could
only bring it back to live if I switch it off and on again.
The problem does only appear if the printer language is set
to PDF (the default) in LibreOffice. If I set it to
PostScript (level of the driver) the printer works as
expected.
On the other hand: I have an old HP
Laserjet 5L. With it the two-pages-on-a-sheet-printing works
(but the orientation is wrong - but that's another
problem).
Here is my software:
OperationSystem: Linux (OpenSuse RC1 or
Archlinux - both the same error)
LibreOffice: 3.4.2
CUPS: 1.5.0
hplip: 3.11.10
Greetings tknierim
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