Problem description: On OSX-10.7 (Snow Leopard) when printing multiple page documents from writer or calc (and possibly everything else but I have only tried these two) the duplex option is not available for selection for a Lexmark T632 having the duplexing option installed. However, when printing the same documents on the same system to the same printer using OpenOffice-3.2 the duplex option is available. Steps to reproduce: 1. create multi-page document is write 2. print 3. Current behavior: Duplex option is not available Expected behavior: Duplex option should be available Platform (if different from the browser): OSX-10.7 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120424 Firefox/10.0.4
OpenOffice 3.2 used the spadmin utility, i.e. PS to PDF, via lp/lpr. OpenOffice 3.3.x switched from PS to printing directly via CUPS, and in doing so, no longer needed the PPD that could be defined within spadmin. LO took over that code from OOo 3.3.x, so it no surprise that this is no longer available. Have you tested OOo 3.3.x or AOO 3.4 to see whether you can still see that option in your print dialog ? If that is the case, then there may be a bug in the LO print handling code. If you can't select it with AOO or OOo 3.3.x then it is probably not going to be fixed at least not by the LO project, since that would involve reverting back to spadmin and the lp subsystem. This is one of my own personal regrets, but I have come to live with it. For me, at best, this is a request for enhancement of low priority. You might have better luck filing a report with the AOO project to see if anyone there is interested in dealing with what you (quite rightly) see as a loss of functionality. Alex
Compare : /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/share/psprint and /Applications/OOo321.app/Contents/basis-link/share/psprint and the corresponding fontmetric folders in /share/psprint. That's where you'll see the differences in printing support. Basically, if your Mac OSX printer driver doesn't expose to OSX's version of CUPS all of its functionality, you won't get access to that functionality in LO. You could always try copying over the files from OOo 3.2.x psprint to the corresponding folder in LO psprint and see if that makes a difference. Alex
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 39809 ***