This may be obvious and obnoxious but I've dealt with similar printer problems by printing to a pdf then printing the pdf. The only thing good to say about it is you don't have to look at the ppd's. Joe On 06/25/2013 02:06 PM, Mark Stodola wrote: > On 06/25/2013 01:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >> On 06/25/2013 10:40 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: >>> On 06/25/2013 12:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >>>> Hi All, >>>> >>>> Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing >>>> or if this really is not a Libre Office problem? >>>> >>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327 >>>> >>>> Many thanks, >>>> -T >>> >>> Having had my fair share of odd behavior with CUPS, I would lean toward >>> that as the culprit. There are several different filters that get used >>> depending on the mime type provided. For instance, on SL 5, texttopaps >>> did very bad things, causing me to force texttops for text/plain >>> processing. Some of these filters have been known to double-rotate, >>> which might be what you are experiencing. It might also be worth >>> skimming through the ppd for the printer to see if the paper >>> definitions >>> or orientation are wrong. If the ppd contains a page orientation, and >>> the program specifies a rotation, this can also lead to incorrect >>> orientation. >>> >>> -Mark >>> >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> The frustrating thing is that I have no problems printing >> from anything else. I can print an envelope just fine >> from Wine/Word Pro, which also uses CUPS. Other programs, >> portrait or landscape, print just as it is told. >> >> Anyway, I opened up the following with Red Hat: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977976 >> >> Maybe, someday, I will be able to print an envelope >> through LO. >> >> Thank you for your response. >> -T > > If you have the time and patience, you can look into turning up the > debug/log level of cups to see what is going on between the programs. > You can also intercept the print queue contents by leaving the spool > enabled but the printer disabled. With enough poking, you should be > able to pin down where the problem exists. > > I am guessing (not sure) that most word processors generate postscript > and send it to CUPS. You can compare the postscript generated in the > spool from each of your programs to see how they differ. It may be > worth while to open the postscript in a text editor to see if there is > other meta-data that could be affecting the outcome as well. > > -Mark >