Ok as some one who doesn't deal with desktops any more but did more than a decade ago, and did deal with these types of problems I cups, I have a questions.
What printer driver are you using and what is the model of the printer? It makes a massive difference to the question.
Further more the cups server do you have the web interface enabled?
If so what are the available settings for the printer?
Finally and most important what is the model of the printer?
P.S. Before you answer these questions here have you asked them on the cups mailing list or the libero office list? If not this is a general mailing list about the over all distribution of the OS and may not be the right place to ask an application implementation specific question.
-- Sent from my HP Pre3
On Jun 25, 2013 8:53 PM, Joseph Areeda <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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
>