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I'm having difficulty printing to both my SAMSUNG CLP-610ND and my HP5550 at
work.
Openoffice 3.2 prints correctly on both printers.
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3280018/Libra_Draw_Print_Error.jpg
The bezier curves are going straight from point to point in the printout.
The bitmap is printing an extra rectangle that does not display.
My more complex drawings print even worse (but display perfectly).
Again, they print fine in OO Draw 3.2.
Hi.
I'm having difficulty printing to both my SAMSUNG CLP-610ND and my HP5550 at
work.Openoffice 3.2 prints correctly on both printers.
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3280018/Libra_Draw_Print_Error.jpgThe bezier curves are going straight from point to point in the printout.
The bitmap is printing an extra rectangle that does not display.
My more complex drawings print even worse (but display perfectly).Again, they print fine in OO Draw 3.2.
.Which LO version and OS
3.4.2 LO and Win 7, Win XP.
Can you post the file someplace so that others can test? I can test in
OOo (various versions) and LO (various versions) in both linux & Windows.
Also have a look through:
<https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=open&product=LibreOffice&content=draw>
Note: you can refine the search, but good luck...
Hi.
3.4.2 LO and Win 7, Win XP.
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This is ringing some bells in the very distance, way before LO, but I
can't quite grasp the memory because it didn't affect me, it may not
even be related to drawing in OO/LO.
It goes along the lines that in linux most printing is generated as
postscript and then rasterized/converted for the individual printer, may
be with ghostscript. This supported the bezier curves. Printing under
windows used a different print method and did not support the bezier
curves. I recollect one test was to create a postscript printer in
windows and print to file (pdf) with that to see if you got bezier
curves. Try installing cutePDF free or similar and see what your output
is like.
steve
I could post this to the openoffice site, they have attached documents there.
I exported this as a PDF (it exported correctly).
I printed the PDF, it printed fine. All the curves were curved.
I created a new drawing. Simply a filled (bitmap stone) curvy shape- one
layer.
It printed fine.
I cut and pasted the curvy shape, changed it to bitmap gravel, and set it to
50% transparent.
Both layers printed jaggy.
I removed the transparency and it printed fine again (still with two layers)
I turned back on transparency in the top layer and it printed jaggy again.
It's like the transparency is what kills the curves.
Attaching the file...
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3285920/stonetest.odg
stonetest.odg
Hi 
That sounds good for a bug-report
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport
If there is already a similar bug-report then could you add a comment now that
you have pinned it down a bit more? Now that you have a few images to work with
have you tried transparency on all of them? Do you get the same problem? Can
you pin it down further?
The bug-reporting guide might help you collect error reports or logs of what is
happening. Are you saving in an OpenDocument format (apart from the Pdf)? If
so then you might be able to make a copy of the files and change the file-ending
on the copy to .zip and then open that as tho it was a normal compressed/zipped
file. The different image files in there might show something interesting.
Good work, it feels like you are getting closer to finding out the problem
Good luck and regards from
Tom
Is this the file with or without the transparent set?
I used LO 3.4.1 on Ubuntu-Linux to test the file.
For me, using using the Export to PDF gave me the "jaggy" image. It also gave me a dialog box about removing the Transparency. But using the CUP-PDF printer for Ubuntu, I get the smooth curves, but the bottom layer's "color" does not show, just the curved outline.
Are you using Windows? If you are, install doPDF PDF printer. This is free and is my default printer on my Vista Laptop. See if you get the proper look printing your Draw documents with doPDF printer [as one of the available printers in your printer list]. If you get a different look with doPDF vs. Export to PDF in Draw, then the programmers will have more info needed to fix the issue.
...
I exported as PDF/A in both 3.3.4 and 3.4.2 (linux). PDF/A mode removes
transparency and prints as an image. In 3.3.4 the image is fine, in
3.4.2 the image is not and the curves are pointed.
I then printed to a cups-pdf printer:
3.3.4 - fine & no problem.
3.4.2 - Acrobat Reader 9.4.2 (linux): "An error exists on this page.
Acrobat may not display the image correctly. Please contact the person
who created the PDF document to correct the problem."
Check on bugzilla and see if you can find an already opened bug report.
If not file a new one & I'll be happy to attach my PDF's to it for
documentation.
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugTriage
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice
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Correction: Adobe Reader 9.4.2.
Sorry, forgot to add that the 3.4.2 image does come up in Adobe Reader
after the error message. However the image is of both layers with no
gradients; bottom is clear outline, top is blue with stone surface.
The things that are notable are:
1) The stonetest.odg created in Libreoffice loads, displays, and prints
correctly in Openoffice 3.2.
2) It prints incorrectly in two different windows operating systems on two
different printers (so it's not a specific driver issue).
3) The libra office exported PDF exports and displays and prints correctly.
It has to be a bug introduced to the printer rendering engine between 3.2
and 3.4.2.
I can't get a libreoffice 3.2 to test.
LibreOffice started out with its first version numbered 3.3.0, so no 3.2 version.
I do not have a 3.3.x version installed to test that line. On 3.4.1 - 64-bit Ubuntu - Export to PDF has jagged image issues.
Printing to the CUPS-PDF [and two different inkjet printers] show smooth [not jagged] outlines, but the background image outlined but not filled in with any color.
I looked and saw no similar bugs so I created bug 40421.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40421
Thanks for your feedback and suggestions. The PDF suggestion gives me a
work around until this is fixed.
