New subject: [Bug 18741] Wine printing output should be in .pdf rather than postscript

2 Jun 2009


      http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18741
Summary: Wine printing output should be in .pdf rather than
                    postscript
           Product: Wine
           Version: 1.1.22
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wineps.drv
        AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org
        ReportedBy: scott@open-vote.org
            Blocks: 5551,6416
The new CUPS standards from http://openprinting.org/ say that .pdf is the
preferred printing format over postscript:
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/printing-architecture/2008/0014...
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PDF as the Standard Print Job Format
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To improve the reliability of the printing process, especially for 
complex graphics, high color depths, and for jobs where pages get 
separated and reordered (2 pages per sheet, booklets, selected pages, 
...) we are switching from PostScript to PDF as standard print job format.
The server (printing system) side is nearly completely implemented in 
the form of new CUPS filters and file conversion rules.
On the client (application) side it is needed that the applications 
generate the print jobs in PDF and not in Postscript. This would mean a 
change of the print job generation part of OpenOffice.org. As 
OpenOffice.org has an excellent "Export to PDF" function, there will not 
be needed much new code. One can use this functionality to generate 
print jobs, using PDF settings optimized for printing.
This is not absolutely urgent, as CUPS can convert PostScript to PDF 
with a pstopdf filter, but applications which directly produce PDF have 
a better control over the graphical quality of the print job, and they 
even solve page management (2 on a sheet, booklets, selected pages, ...) 
problems on old PostScript-based servers, as a CUPS filter will generate 
PostScript from the incoming PDF then (pdftops) and this PostScript is 
much cleaner as the one coming from most applications.
So I am asking you whether you can change OpenOffice.org to make the 
"Print" command emitting PDF instead of PostScript. To not break lagacy, 
non-PDF-capable environments, make this a configurable option.
I am very grateful for any support from the OpenOffice.org side in terms 
of these OpenPrinting projects. They will improve the printing workflow 
a lot and will make many bugs and user complaints go away.
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We should do a similar thing in Wine
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[Bug 18741] New: Wine printing output should be in .pdf rather than postscript