This is how to edit user groups in PCC:
PCC/system/administration tools/manage users on system. Right click on main user and select edit. Select group tab. There are the user groups that you are part of that are checked off, and the ones you are not in that are not checked.
I did add another user, gave it the same groups I was in, and it didn't help, so I deleted.
I was having problems finding my printed cups-pdf files. I went to /etc/cups/cups-pdf.conf and edited the file. The default place to print to was /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}, but I didn't see anything there. Changed line 45 to #Out /home/MYUSERNAME/Desktop/, instead of #Out /var/spool/cups-pdf/${USER}. Did not have to reboot, worked right away to put on desktop. No way that I know of right now to name file, though.
I used cups-pdf to print my ods table to pdf. Opened file, and it showed up miniaturized on the portrait page, and printed the same way. By miniature, I mean 1 1/4" X 1 1/4" or so.
I opened original ods file, chose gutenprint printer, selected options tab and checked print to file, which saved a pdf file. Did the same with the cups printer (same printer, different driver - hpcups 3.12.6 vs CUPS+gutenprint v5.2.7 Simplified). Opened both pdf's...they looked fine. Opened original ods file. Printed with cups driver, then printed with gutenprint driver. BOTH had the error /usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster failed!
Saw Tex's answer to gstoraster failed here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,97359.0.html. Looked for ghostscript-common, and there are no updates, so I reinstalled. Didn't see a difference.
Saw where you contributed here:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,97245.60.html. This got me to thinking about margins and the move from openoffice (OO) to libreoffice.
When I opened up ods file (which again is a spreadsheet with a title in heading and date in footer going approximately from margin to margin) I tried to print with both gutenprint driver and cups driver (again, have my same printer installed twice - once with each driver). Both have the gstoraster failed error. I highlighted and copied my spreadsheet (knowing it was made in OO when it was installed on my computer a while ago) opened up a new spreadsheet, and pasted it in. Changed to landscape, deleted header (title) and footer (date).
I started with gutenprint driver. With grayscale draft mode, got gstoraster failed. Grayscale standard printed ok. Color draft printed, but printed a partial colum at the end of the page after finishing the complete spreadsheet. Color standard didn't finish the spreadsheet.
With the cups driver, it only offered grayscale - no color. With both draft mode and normal, it printed a partial column after completing the total spreadsheet.
With the full spreadsheet printed from the ods file in libreoffice, there is 3 1/4" left on the right side margin of empty space. The default margins are .79" all sides. I tried changing margins first, but it gave me the gstoraster failed error again, so I went back to default margins. I thought I would widen the columns since I had so much space on the right. The default column width is .89". I tried 1.2" and 1.0", and got gstoraster failed error. I thought maybe it just wanted the default of .89", so I tried .90" and that worked, so I tried .95" - knowing I had a lot of room - and the printer cut off from 1/2 of the 2nd to last column on.
I next tried the spreadsheet that was saved to pdf. Both cups and gutenprint saved the whole spreadsheet just fine...I can see everything. I used the original ods with the title header and date footer.
I opened originally with foxit, but when I printed, the rows had different sizes in draft mode. In normal mode, it cut off part of the left and bottom margin.
I then opened the pdf in okular.
Using the cups driver, the only color choice was grayscale. In draft and normal mode, it cut off part of left side (about 1/4").
Using the gutenprint driver, grayscale draft and standard printed everything in full. Switching to color standard mode, it only printed 1 1/2 columns before it stopped and spitted out. No gstoraster failed error, but when I opened HP Device Manager (under more applications/printing), and clicked on printer and went to printer control tab, the printer had stopped. I restarted printer, and it started printing, but then stopped in the same place.
With a regular document I type out in libreoffice, I don't have an issue. Probably because it's black and white and wide enough margins.
I next tried a color webpage. I went to pclinuxos.com like you suggested earlier, and I printed 1 page only on both drivers. Gutenprint printed the whole page and had it in color. Didn't print the background, but I see in print popup box where there is an option to do that if I want. The only thing that happened is a tiny bit of the webpage info at the very top that is printed out was missing.
With cups, it was in black and white. It printed only less than half the page before stopping and spitting out. Did not have the gstoraster failed error message.
Lastly, tried opening that pdf in libreoffice, which opened it up in libre draw. I had the same results that I did with the original ods in LO writer - with a pdf.
I measured the margins on my spreadsheet: Left side is 7/16" from edge to where printing starts. Right is 9/16", top is 5/16", and bottom is 1/4".
Is this a margin issue with cups, gutenprint, libreoffice, foxit, okular, or my printer? Whatever it is, is there a way to find out what is the absolute minimum I can get away with and still get everything to print, or is it just trial and error? Even with printing in libreoffice with a 3 1/4" margin on the right that was open space, I was having problems printing at times (see above).
Well, I've spent too much of my Saturday fussing with this.
Any thoughts?
