From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: Had a hard time with OO on RH8.0. Simply doesn't create PDFs. I also posted a bug report to OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6829) , but by now it seems it is an integration problem into RH: In /usr/lib/openoffice/spadmin I created the default printer lpr (a LaserJet) and the PDF-converter. The user can print to the LaserJet, but no PDF is created in the target directory. I found, that the PDF had been created in the default ("My Documents") directory. Then I ran ~.openoffice/spadmin and set the PDF-directory again, and now nothing is created nowhere (slocate updated is my friend). Only straightforward printing to LaserJet still works, even printing to a file is out of question (simply nothing is produced). I only renamed the default printer (su) to LaserJet 5 and now LaserJet 5 *and* the old "Generic Printer" show up in spadmin (user), none of which can be removed. Okay for the PDF-converter and the LaserJet 5; but how (where) to remove the former "Generic Printer" which is not available under spadmin (su) and not removable in spadmin (user). I also set A4 as default for PDF-converter, but the printer applet always falls back to Letter. A big hole of a mess, by now. How to reset the settings for spadmin for both su and user? And then, thereafter: how to make the PDF-converter produce PDFs again? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. (please, see above !) 2. 3. Actual Results: No printing to file, no PDF-conversion Expected Results: Consistent setup (spadmin) for su and user to permit creation of PDF and printing to a file. Plus a clear reset function that erases all printers, at least as su. Additional info:
*** Bug 77829 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Can you post the string you have for the PDF coverter from spadmin?
May I deviate somewhat from the topic. please ? I wouldn't know where else to post this. You guys are doing a good job, really ! Congratulations ! At times I was impatient, dissatisfied. My excuses. You are cleaning up very well; probably related to the professional, commercial background of RedHat. You're trying to sort out all details that went wrong. Forensics. Will make RedHat a great success ! Keep going. Now back to your request: It was like what I posted. On November 14; more than a year ago. Then OO probably had been some 1.0.something. Inbetween, we had a few hundered RHN-updates. We also had two (?) betas of OO 1.1; 5 RCs; 1.1.0 itself. Of course, my system(s) today are so different, and - honestly - you cannot expect me to freeze a non-functional state. Just for space, at a certain moment I had to delete the OO that came with 8.0. You will understand that I am unable to provide what you asked for. Kind regards, and keep up the good job ! Uwe
Please try current OOo 1.1.0, and reopen if problem still occurs. Specifically, try the File->Export to PDF functionality and see if that has problems too. Thanks!