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