Problems printing from RH-7.3 and OpenOffice-1.0.1

[Steven W. Orr]

I posted this to the OO list and didn't get any help except to confirm 
that other people's files work as badly for me as my own files do. I 
don't know what to think: If it's an OO problem then they must be 
generating bad postscript. (But other people can print the postscript?) 
OTOH, if it's a gv/ghostview problem, then why does my printer not print 
the file? I'm totally stumpolafied.  Also, I discovered today that I'm 
having the same problem on my RH-7.3 machine at work. I did upgrade from 
j2re-1.3.1 to 1.4.1 but it doesn't fix anything.

I'm tossing it out here on the chance that people's linux experience would 
outweigh the number of windoze guys hanging out on the OO mailinglist.

Thanks guys. Anything would be better than what I got now. :-(

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 15:00:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net>
Reply-To: users at openoffice.org
To: Open Office User <users at openoffice.org>
Subject: [users] Problems printing. (This time I have more info to present.)

I can not print from OO if I create a document. Here's the whole story.

I create a truly minimal document which only says the word Hello. 

Before saving it I go to print it to a file. The file is called x1.ps
It can be found at http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.ps

I go to view that file with gv under linux. gv will not display the file 
complaining:

X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
  Serial number of failed request:  36
  Current serial number in output stream:  36

So then I save the file as an sxw (native format) and restart OO with the 
saved file. Once again I print to a file. This time you can see it as 
http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x2.ps
Also, the sxw file is at
http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.sxw

But, trust me, it only differs by the date internally.

I even save it as a Word doc file
http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.doc

and try to print from that which yields
http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x4.ps
No difference.

Now the fun: I view x1.ps using kghostview and for some magic reason, that 
works. From there, I print to PDF format which yields
http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x2.pdf

I can view x2.pdf just fine using xpdf and from there I can print to x3.ps 
which *is* viewable by gv. (BTW, gv is just a pretty front end to 
ghostview. And also, they perform identically.) X3.ps can be seen here:
http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x3.ps

I happen to be running Red Hat 7.3 with jre-1.3.1 and OO 1.0.1. I happen 
to be running CUPS instead of LPRng.

And just one more little item, just to screw you up even further: If 
someone sends me a uSoft Word doc, it will print just fine. So it seems 
that the only problems I'm having are the docs that I try to create 
myself. 

Also, my printer seems to be working fine. The resolution is properly set 
to PostScript at 600 DPI in both CUPS and in OO.

I really need this working and I don't have the vaguest clue how to fix 
it. Someone, please?

-- 
-Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have -
-happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ
-Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all-
-individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net


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