[Libreoffice] how to print into .ps

Petr Mladek pmladek at suse.cz
Tue Nov 22 05:41:16 PST 2011


Michael Stahl píše v Út 22. 11. 2011 v 13:35 +0100:
> On 22/11/11 13:02, Petr Mladek wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > if you select "Print to File" check box in the "Print" dialog, it
> > generates .pdf file.
> > 
> > IMHO, if you debug printing bugs, it would be great to see the .ps file
> > that is send to the printer. Is there any easy way how to get it?
> 
> AFAIK on UNIX we don't send PostScript to the printer any more, but PDF.
> 
> ah, it is mentioned on the OOo 3.4 beta release notes
> http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.4beta.html
> 
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=94173
> 
> but i could imagine it would still make sense to be able to produce a PS
> file, perhaps disabling that was an unintended side effect?

Ah, I was not aware that PDF was sent to the printer. In this case,
print to file works as expected. It should save exactly the same thing
that it would send to the selected printer.

Thanks you all for explanation.

Best Regards,
Petr



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