From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ee7gL-0001Qn-Uu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:09:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAL98OGo015124; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:08:24 GMT Received: from realss.com ([218.85.134.166]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAL92dgA017021 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:02:40 GMT Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by realss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E758950035 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:02:31 +0800 (CST) Received: from realss.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hackles.realss.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00667-14 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:02:31 +0800 (CST) Received: from [10.0.0.3] (unknown [220.160.156.213]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by realss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B2050034 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:02:31 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <43818DBA.1070400@realss.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:04:58 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051019 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, zh-cn Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer? References: <1132543117.3304.40.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200511201932.25704.electronerd@electronerdia.net> <1132545226.20570.14.camel@localhost> <43814CFE.40306@realss.com> <1132548995.20570.31.camel@localhost> <438166DA.6050602@realss.com> <4381694A.8080108@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4381694A.8080108@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at realss.com X-Archives-Salt: d159e080-f49c-42af-a19a-f7d89351c9fd X-Archives-Hash: 1308bc5dd98600304f9550d672eb65fb Zac Medico wrote: > Zhang Weiwu wrote: > >> >> after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar >> problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo >> there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I >> discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there is no >> possibility to switch to color. On one other gentoo computer the PS >> output is colorful thanks to the color printer installed. >> >> This is not perfect but nevertheless I managed to make PS files. I only >> need to take the ODT file to my another gentoo computer who has color >> printer and make the PS, this is much simpler then asking Windows user >> for help. >> >> Certainly I could share my color printer. Is there an even better >> (perfect) way? > > > You shouldn't need a physical printer attached in order to configure a > "dummy" postscript color printer driver for cups. > > Zac In the beging I am not sure of what port to use for my dummy printer, and there seems no "file" port like in Windows (kill me if you don't like to hear that word so much). Later I discovered I better install this package: cups-pdf This is a very interesting package: it provide a virtual printer that outputs PDF files. I think no other virtual printer is better then this one, because if you use it and "print-to-file" it seems to be generating standard PS file with good color at level 3, and if you do not use "print-to-file" it generate good PDF document. So it works both ways, helps in more situations then other PS printers. this is obviously my recommendation for a dummy printer (point me a better one if you know). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list