<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Michael Meeks <<a href="mailto:michael.meeks@suse.com" target="_blank">michael.meeks@suse.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi guys, On Fri, 2012-11-09 at 10:54 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 12:23 +0100, Michael Stahl wrote: > > this patch appears to change the default format for printing via CUPS > > from PDF to PostScript. this was changed from PostScript to PDF in OOo 3.3. > > Urk ! - right, reverting that is not a good fix. So - in fact; having consulted internally and read a few bugzilla bugs - I think it is perhaps quite a good fix; we have things like: <a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442#c5" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=732442#c5</a> Which look scary; Johannes maintains CUPS at SUSE, and his view is that we should be careful here; he suggested having an IMHO un-usable option in the print dialog to select which meta-file-format (hmm). So - (I guess) perhaps (reluctantly) turning this back to generate .PS output is the right answer cf. <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44664" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44664</a> Having said that - it's clearly nice to help out with improving CUPS - so I recommend we default to PS, unless we're in "Experimental mode" where we use PDF instead (?). How does that sound ? Any chance of tweaking the patch to do that Lior - and thanks for the catch ! :-) </blockquote></div> I can try, but I need hints/pointers for this experimental mode (let me remind you I'm not a programmer). CCing Jaroslav Krejci who provided the patch in the first place. Kaplan </div>