[Mageia-discuss] Samsung Printer driver and choice of "pdf" "PostScript" in print default

Sat Jun 9 18:01:11 CEST 2012

On 06/05/2012 05:08 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
+> I was just printing some material in "landscape" mode on my Samsung
+> SCX-4200 printer and could not figure out why it would only print in
+> "portrait" mode. After fiddling around with settings, I found that when
+> at the printing stage, the print window will open and if I went to
+> "Print->Properties->Device(tab)->Printer Language Type->" it showed
+> "pdf". If I changed it to ""PostScript (Level from driver)" everything
+> worked fine.
+>
+> Is there a way to make the "PostScript" drive the default driver? It
+> just seems that whenever I open/close a piece of editing/wordprocessing
+> software, the driver goes back to "pdf".
+>
+> Many thanks for any help.
+>
+> Cheers,
+>
+> Marc
+>
+> Mageia2; Samsung SCX-4200
+>
+>
+I ran into this problem back in February with LibreOffice Calc and my HP 
+printers. It was even more bothersome for me with Calc, as if you export 
+part of a spreadsheet to pdf, the resulting document won't print 
+correctly from any pdf reader where you can't tell it to auto-rotate the 
+page, no matter what you do.
+
+Supposedly, if you go to /usr/lib/libreoffice/programs and run the 
+spadmin script, you can change this default setting (for the printer, 
+not the pdf export). That's the way LibreOffice set it up to work, as I 
+understand it. In practice, with Mageia anyway, if the "Disable CUPS 
+support" box isn't checked, the setting isn't permanent. But, if you 
+disable CUPS support, you'll need to provide your own printer command.
+
+Interestingly enough, the problem didn't exist with the last Sun/Oracle 
+version of OpenOffice, so you could circumvent the problem by installing 
+and using that instead of LibreOffice. I haven't tried the new Apache 
+version of OpenOffice yet, so I don't know if that still holds true.
+
+A workaround for individual files was to change the printer language 
+setting for each document, then save the document to make it permanent 
+for that document. You might have to make a small, invisible change in 
+the document itself, like adding a character and then removing it, to 
+trigger a proper save. I know it's a bother if you need to do it for a 
+lot of files, but it's all I know to do.
+
+TJ
+
+