Bug#358612: openoffice.org-writer: OO.o 2.0.2 Doesn't print envelopes using CUPS and HP DeskJet 540
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 2.0.2-2
Severity: normal
1) Create blank text document
2) Use Format|Page and change Format to "Env. #10"
3) Change to Landscape (else you have a tall narrow envelope instead of
a short wide envelope that is typically used)
4) Enter some text
5) Attempt to print
Result: Printer spits out a blank page after making printing noises for
one line (however ink is fine since the workaround described below
works).
On checking the "Printer Settings", OO.o has set the page type to
"Commercial 10". This appears to occur when on printing as checking the
printer settings prior to printing for the first time reveals a paper
size of "Letter".
Workaround:
Use a 'user' Format with width and height which don't match any
predefined paper types, and set margins to compensate. This results in
the paper size in printer settings staying at Letter, and prints
correctly.
This error occurs with stable's cups as well as cups 1.1.23-15 on an HP
DeskJet 540 (old PCL inkjet printer). I use pure cups and gimpprint
drivers (no foomatic).
This is probably not debian-specific as I have noted similar behaviour
in OO.o 1.1 on Windows (though it may have been those fixes which have
broken OO.o 2 on Debian; I'm not sure as I haven't used windows much
for a long time).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (10, 'testing'), (7, 'unstable'), (3, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-9 GCC support library
ii libicu34 3.4-4 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libstlport4.6c2 4.6.2-3 STLport C++ class library
ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.4-2 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii openoffice.org-core 2.0.2-2 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii python-uno 2.0.2-2 Python interface for OpenOffice.or
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
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