Hi Tom, I saw the LibreOffice hint about printing to ps instead of pdf also on the OpenSuSE forum. But thats not the case at all, we are using the recommend Postscript driver, that has worked for years on several OpenSuSE Versions (last we used it, was 11.4). It's not only that libreoffice doesnt work, the most of kde apps doesn't work as well. And my question was, if there is a general problem with printing with postscript drivers on OpenSuSE 12.2. If we use the other drivers we saw a couple of other problems, like the paper size doesn't fit (print is ot ouf A4 range). Can you confirm this problem with other postscript drivers? Best regards, Johannes Müller-Lahn Thomas Taylor hat am 25. September 2012 um 19:43 geschrieben:

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:52:36 +0200 (CEST) "Johannes Müller-Lahn" wrote:

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Hello,

we have some strange issues on OpenSuSE 12.2 and postscript printers. On cups (v. 1.5.3) we installed "HP LaserJet 2430 Postscript (recommended)", either via direct socket or lpd. The test printing from cups works fine, also from firefox and okular, for example. But kwrite, libreoffice and gimp (maybe also others) fails. When I change the printer to the hpcups driver everything works fine, but the trays do have ugly names, etc.

Do you have an idea what this might be?

Best regards,

Johannes Müller-Lahn

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Hi Johannes, I can only offer information for LibreOffice where some printers ( esp. Brother) does not by default use postscript. There was a somewhat lengthy discussion on the LO mail list with the final analysis being that one has to first print to a file with postscript format and then print that file. Seems as how LibreOffice prints to pdf format by default and must be forced to print to ps format.

You might test what formats are actually being used on your system and try forcing it to print to a ps file and then print that.

Also, have you contacted HP to inquire about their linux drivers?

Tom

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Tom

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have a look at: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692356#c17

hth

ps: this quoting style sucks!

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