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Hi,
No, I haven't a dialog-box for "double-sided" or "two sided". The Options for double sided printing 
(duplex) is set through the properties of the printer. The Problem is not duplex but Pages per 
Sheet (don't know if this is correct labeling, my gui is in german: "Seiten pro Blatt" in Page 
Layout (Seitenlayout))
Setting Pages per Sheet to two make the printer eject a paper an let him flash a warning light of 
missing paper (maybe wrong paper size - but I left it to A4).
Setting the Printer Language (Druckersprache) from PDF to Postscript (level of the driver) solves 
the problem...

regards

ToK


Am 01.01.2012 um 16:30 schrieb Tom Davies:


Hi :)
When you choose 
File - Print
do you get a dialogue-box that gives various options?  Is one of the options "double-sided" or 
"two sided"?  Ok, that's a bit obvious but obvious things get missed sometimes while looking for 
a more complicated answer.

In the print dialogue-box do you have an option to choose which printer and to set the 
"Properties" of the printer?  i think there might be an option in there.  

I doubt printers can be set to over-ride commands and force double-sided printing but it might 
help us to know what  printer you have got.

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sat, 31/12/11, Thomas Knierim <tknierim@web.de> wrote:

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, 31 December, 2011, 16:32

....or does anybody know how to set the default language of the printer in a configuration file?


Am 31.12.2011 um 17:14 schrieb Thomas Knierim:


Hi again,

I've waited for some updates but it's still not ok! 
Opensuse 12.1 doesn't has the problem, but I don't know why my favorite distribution (Archlinux) 
still isn't able to print to side-by-side.

Does anybody know how to set up a printer using spadim. I always get the message, the filesystem 
is read only....

PLEEEEEAAAAASE
does anybody know how to solve ONE of the problems?


ToK


Am 08.11.2011 um 19:32 schrieb Thomas Knierim:


Hi,

I mean to print two pages side by side. The problem is if I print two pages side by side the 
printer hangs - with libreoffice only. Not with evince (gnome pdf viewer) for example. If I 
switch the "printer language" from pdf to ps everything works fine... But I don't want to do it 
for every job - and by the way: can ps send fonts to the printer? Does libreoffice send fonts 
to the printer if the "printer language" is set to pdf?

regards

Thomas


Am 29.10.2011 um 17:05 schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press Productions:



The two pages per sheet issue.  You want to have them printed side by side? Or one page on one 
side and the second page on the other side of the sheet?  Side by side printed out on a 
landscape orientation works well, but it is a printer option.  Having the pages printed one on 
each side of the sheet is a duplexing issue.  I have been having the same problem with 
duplexing as well as others.

side by side printing
Print > Page Layout > Pages per sheet.
2 will print two page side by side.
IT works fine for me.  I prefer to have the option of bordering the pages, since it looks 
better to me.

For duplex printing, I have to print it out as a PDF document and print it with the document 
viewer with the duplex option, instead of printing it directly through LO.  LO just does not 
"see" or adjust the duplex option on my Epson Artisan printer properly.


On 10/29/2011 10:47 AM, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
In your existing Arch could you just install a virtual machine and try out a few things in 
there?  Alternatively create a new partition on a hard-drive and use that for experimentation.

You surely don't need to trash what you do have that is almost perfect in order to just try 
something a little different!
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sat, 29/10/11, Thomas Knierim<tknierim@web.de>  wrote:


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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