[Foomatic] Re: OpenOffice 1.1.0 workaround also required for OpenOffice 1.1.1 in foomatic-rip

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Wed Jun 16 11:00:24 PDT 2004


Thanks for the report. It is fixed on CVS now.

    Till


Nigel Tamplin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed the foomatic-filters-3.0.1, and OpenOffice 1.1.1 on Linux.
> 
> OpenOffice 1.1.1 has the same bug as OpenOffice 1.1.0 and there is already a
> workaround in foomatic-rip.
> 
> ----- From the changelog...
> 2003-03-07  Till Kamppeter <till.kamppeter at gmx.net>
> 
>         * foomatic-rip.in: Workaround for bug in OpenOffice.org.
>           OpenOffice.org puts "%%BeginSetup...%%EndSetup" section with
>           option settings valid for the whole document after the first
>           "%%Page:..." line. So without the workaround all settings made
>           with the "Properties" button in the "File"|"Print" dialog
>           applied only to the first page, the other pages were printed
>           with the printer's default settings. Fixed also some typos.
> ----- 
> 
> 
> The workaround is enabled within foomatic-rip when the creator =
> "OpenOffice.org\s+1.1.0"  (line 2412 foomatic-rip)
> 
> However, OpenOffice 1.1.1 sets the creator to "%%Creator: OpenOffice.org
> 1.1.1",
> which does not match, hence the workaround is not enabled and the bug is
> evident.
> 
> I suggest that the foomatic-rip script be changed to enable the workaround for
> both version 1.1.0 and 1.1.1 of OpenOffice.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nigel.



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