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Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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>Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>Zhang Weiwu wrote: |
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>>>after a few test it looks obvious OO on gentoo suffer from the samiliar |
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>>>problem as oo on Windows (sorry to mension Windows again). On my gentoo |
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>>>there is only one printer installed on cups that is a LaserJet. Later I |
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>>>discovered all PS files I provided are grayscale, and there is no |
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>>>possibility to switch to color. On one other gentoo computer the PS |
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>>>output is colorful thanks to the color printer installed. |
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>>>This is not perfect but nevertheless I managed to make PS files. I only |
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>>>need to take the ODT file to my another gentoo computer who has color |
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>>>printer and make the PS, this is much simpler then asking Windows user |
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>>>for help. |
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>>>Certainly I could share my color printer. Is there an even better |
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>>>(perfect) way? |
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>>You shouldn't need a physical printer attached in order to configure a |
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>>"dummy" postscript color printer driver for cups. |
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>>Zac |
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>In the beging I am not sure of what port to use for my dummy printer, |
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>and there seems no "file" port like in Windows (kill me if you don't |
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>like to hear that word so much). Later I discovered I better install |
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>this package: |
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>cups-pdf |
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>This is a very interesting package: it provide a virtual printer that |
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>outputs PDF files. I think no other virtual printer is better then this |
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>one, because if you use it and "print-to-file" it seems to be generating |
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>standard PS file with good color at level 3, and if you do not use |
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>"print-to-file" it generate good PDF document. So it works both ways, |
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>helps in more situations then other PS printers. this is obviously my |
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>recommendation for a dummy printer (point me a better one if you know). |
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Just to mension, the PS generic drive used for cups-pdf can print up to |
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2400dpi. |
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