Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 11:14:27 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein <hg@queue.to> To: freebsd-office@freebsd.org Subject: Fix for slow print preview Message-ID: <509D2BE3.5040409@queue.to>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigA4E15A3E158544A7028074A3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable A few minor releases ago OO and LO both added a little thumbnail preview to the printer dialog. For those with network printers and using old but seemingly correct printer drivers these newer releases caused the print dialog to stall for a few second while the thumbnail was drawn up somewhere. Everything else continued to work fine but the printing dialog was terribly annoying. I never did find precisely where the somewhere was (the X process was eating up 100% of the cpu during this thumbnail draw) but the fix for me was to change cups and the lo printer driver to the the ones marked with "-ijs". In my situation the old driver was an ordinary laserjet4 attached to cups with the recommended HP .ppd from HP. *These old drivers are not IJS compliant and that results in the long delays* To work around the problem therefore replace your cups and LO printer driver with a newer driver support this IJS standard which appears to be some .pdf like standard. The churning in X was probably some bit converting the postscript to a .pdf thumbnail for the print preview. The preview should occur instantly with an -ijs driver. Not to forget a huge *thank you* to our freebsd-office team for the hard work pays off and freebsd 9 is deployed on a law office desktop here because it just works. --------------enigA4E15A3E158544A7028074A3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iD8DBQFQnSvpdYVFuiUUgywRAsFuAJ923tRvu/95/jNwxLd+u1HRMLvw9wCfe5vB ug3euDXCDMl5wcyTUTEslQk= =JYR8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigA4E15A3E158544A7028074A3--
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