Le 14/03/2014 11:45, Caolán McNamara a écrit : Hi Caolan,
Judging from the posts I have seen on the user list since LO came into existence, there are still some use cases where CUPS does not provide the required support and people need to be able to fall back to spadmin for printing. The fact that spadmin could be used to add Type1 PS fonts, which are no longer supported, if I understand correctly, has also been, and continues to be, an issue that crops up on the user list (and possibly also in BZ) for some people. The problem as I see it is that there are so many printers out there being used by LO users, some of them quite old now (yet tried and trusted, especially in business), for which CUPS support has been dropped or curbed over time, and it is handy to be able to pop in one's own PPD to just get the job done. >From my own experience, the switch to "CUPS ONLY" by default caused the loss of being able to print from two different trays in one document over the network, i.e. have page 1 print out on header paper in a first or manual tray, and then subsequent pages from the follow-on paper tray. This could previously be set up in a PPD and included via spadmin, including on Mac OSX. I have not yet found a way to this with CUPS, having been reduced to separate printing steps for each set of pages. I have no idea whether such use cases are still representative of the mainstream usage of LO, but it is certainly around in businesses with legacy printers that are still functioning. I have used HP LJs (4050n, 2500dtn, Apple LaserWriter) in business scenarii in the past with OOo and the ability to fiddle with the PPD to get things working right was the saving grace on many occasion. Alex _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
