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 1Ee808-0004v1-9I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:30:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAL9TNOJ021655; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:29:23 GMT Received: from realss.com ([218.85.134.166]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAL9P2fe028751 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:25:02 GMT Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by realss.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F59F50035 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:56 +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 01274-13 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:55 +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 CB83D50034 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:24:54 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <438192F8.8020608@realss.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:27:20 +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> <43818DBA.1070400@realss.com> In-Reply-To: <43818DBA.1070400@realss.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: 42cfa798-a168-4c4d-a9f5-d2114845c1e1 X-Archives-Hash: 1d1e5cd3d0446ef1689992253c8c7738 Zhang Weiwu wrote: >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). > > Just to mension, the PS generic drive used for cups-pdf can print up to 2400dpi. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list