The message below was posted to the user mailing list but I've gotten no luck. I
have determined that other people are having the same problem but I can't figure
out who the lucky ones are and aren't. Some Red Hat people fail and some
Mandrake people fail. I'm running cups, but I can't even view the PostScript
with gv or ghostview. And the weird thing is that people can send me a Word doc
and that will print ok. So it simultaneously looks like it's a problem with OOo,
ghostview, *and* my printer. None of this makes any sense. Please let me know if
there's anything I can do to provide more info.

Since noone is answering my question, maybe I can get some more info from 
another approach: Could someone please create a new document that just has 
the word hello in it and then please send me the .sxw file and their 
resulting PostScript file? Maybe I can look at the difference bewteen your 
resulting Postscript and mine. :-(

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote:

=>I can not print from OO if I create a document. Here's the whole story.
=>
=>I create a truly minimal document which only says the word Hello. 
=>
=>Before saving it I go to print it to a file. The file is called x1.ps
=>It can be found at http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.ps
=>
=>I go to view that file with gv under linux. gv will not display the file 
=>complaining:
=>
=>X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
=>  Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
=>  Serial number of failed request:  36
=>  Current serial number in output stream:  36
=>
=>So then I save the file as an sxw (native format) and restart OO with the 
=>saved file. Once again I print to a file. This time you can see it as 
=>http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x2.ps
=>Also, the sxw file is at
=>http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.sxw
=>
=>But, trust me, it only differs by the date internally.
=>
=>I even save it as a Word doc file
=>http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x1.doc
=>
=>and try to print from that which yields
=>http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x4.ps
=>No difference.
=>
=>Now the fun: I view x1.ps using kghostview and for some magic reason, that 
=>works. From there, I print to PDF format which yields
=>http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x2.pdf
=>
=>I can view x2.pdf just fine using xpdf and from there I can print to x3.ps 
=>which *is* viewable by gv. (BTW, gv is just a pretty front end to 
=>ghostview. And also, they perform identically.) X3.ps can be seen here:
=>http://steveo.syslang.net/ootst/x3.ps
=>
=>I happen to be running Red Hat 7.3 with jre-1.3.1 and OO 1.0.1. I happen 
=>to be running CUPS instead of LPRng.
=>
=>And just one more little item, just to screw you up even further: If 
=>someone sends me a uSoft Word doc, it will print just fine. So it seems 
=>that the only problems I'm having are the docs that I try to create 
=>myself. 
=>
=>Also, my printer seems to be working fine. The resolution is properly set 
=>to PostScript at 600 DPI in both CUPS and in OO.
=>
=>I really need this working and I don't have the vaguest clue how to fix 
=>it. Someone, please?