running OOo 2.2 as a CUPS filter

[Helge Blischke]

In order to automate bulk printing of office documents
I managed to run OOo 2.2 (via a small wrapper written in Perl)
as a filter in CUPS.

OOo is called from within the wrapper as
   soffice -headless -display :n name_of_document
It may occur that the ordinary X display does not
work under lp as user due to authentification problems.
In that case it works with connecting to a display
provided by the Xvfb fake server.

Now to the problem:
Though it usually requires some initial hacks to
get OOo properly initialized for user lp, it works
with most Linux distributions, but *not* on a
SUSe 8.2 system (there are several conditions which prohibit an
update in the short run).

Perhaps someone aquainted to the SUSe peculiarities can
lead me to the right direction?

Helge