Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects "PDF" instead of Postscript

Hi,

Here is more information about this issue:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94173

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15938/libre-office-change-printer-language-type-from-pdf-to-postscript

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&sugexp=pfwl&cp=25&gs_id=2q&xhr=t&q=cups+printer+language+pdf&pf=p&output=search&sclient=psy-ab&pbx=1&oq=cups+printer+language+pdf&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=ed6966981cf4427a&biw=1680&bih=942

Don

On 01/24/2012 12:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500
> webmaster for Kracked Press Productions<webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> dijo:
>
> > I am sorry you are not getting any help.  I wonder it it is an
> > isolated issue for Fedora 16.  If people have not see this happen
> > before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it.
> >
> > So is there any issues with printing/exporting the file to PDF then
> > printing it out to your printer?   Do your file require Postscript
> > printing instead of HP default printer language?
> Exporting to PDF and then printing with Okular, Evince, Adobe Reader,
> or other PDF viewers works fine. But that is more work than just
> clicking the Print button, or even wading through the Print dialog box
> tabs and menus to change the default behavior.
>
> The problem is that there is a new "PDF" setting in the print dialog
> box. It used to be on OOo that the default was to use whatever print
> options were set according to the driver you selected in CUPS
> (Postscript, Gutenprint, PCL, etc.). Now you have to go into General
> tab>  Properties>  Device>  tab>  Printer language type>  where it
> gives you the options:
>
> *PDF
> Postscript - level from driver
> Postscript - level 1
> Postscript - level 2
> Postscript - level 3
>
> And it is set to PDF by default. And the PDF option is broken - it does
> not use the font metrics built into the font, so characters print as
> though the font were a monospaced font. A word like "limit" comes out
> looking a bit like "l i mi t" (except that the second i is actually
> smashed into the m). Otherwise the printing is fine. And it uses the
> font metrics correctly if I manually select Postscript - level from
> driver, or Postscript level 1 or 2. It's just that the option is buried
> several clicks deep in the Print dialog box and I keep forgetting to
> change it from the default "PDF." Also, it does this with all fonts.
>
> I don't know why there is a "PDF" option in the Device tab, because
> only a handful of very expensive late model high end printers actually
> have the new Adobe PDF print engine built in. I'm talking printers
> costing $5,000 and up.
>
> If I write the document with Abiword, Kword, or any other word
> processor, it prints fine just by clicking the Print button.
>
> I wish I could post screen shots of the Device tab in the Print dialog
> box so you could see exactly what I am talking about. Even better would
> be if I could add screen shots of the Print dialog box from OOo where
> this problem did not exist. But OOo is not currently installed on my
> computer, having switched to Libreoffice after upgrading from Fedora 14
> to Fedora 16.
>
> I just need to find a setting to change the default from "PDF" to
> "Postscript - level from driver" or "Postscript - level 2." It would be
> OK if Libreoffice would just remember the setting from last time I
> printed, but with each new document it has to be set again. If it's
> hard coded I'm probably going to have to uninstall Libreoffice and go
> back to OOo because I'm tired of wasting time, paper and toner every
> time I forget to change it.

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