[cups.general] [QUESTION] Is this an OOo bug when creating PostScript printfiles?

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 13:28:50 PDT 2007


Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> Yes, it certainly is. The OOo folks should put the slot selection
> at the end of the global setup section (or repeat it in the page setup
> for *every* page. But, as the setpagedevice operator has a lot of
> side effects like executing an initgraphics etc., in this case any
> pagecounting by BeginPage and/or AndPage procedures and related
> stuff would not work).
> 
> Look at the links on the CUPS web site, there is a filter named oopstops
> which sanitizes the PS output of OOo 2.x (and presumably 1.x, but
> I haven't tested that) suitable for CUPS' pstops filter.
> 

This filter I have made standard in Ubuntu, from Gutsy/7.10 on.

    Till





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