Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 75579
CUPS printer property changes are not propagated to OpenOffice
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:12:52 UTC
As reported in Ubuntu at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/48694 by Dražen KaÄar and Till Kamppeter: OpenOffice.org saves all PPD option settings of the printer(s) in the document when you save your document after having printed it. And it saves really all options, not only the ones you have changed. So if you change a default on your CUPS server afterwards (Installed Options/Duplex Unit: Not Installed -> Installed) this will not have any influence when you continue working on your OOo document. You must go onto the "Device" tab of the "Properties" dialog in OOo and change the option there, too. Proposed fix: This has to be done upstream, as it is an OpenOffice.org problem and this appears the same way in every distribution. The printing dialog of OOo should not display and save any option in the group "Installed Options" (or "Options Installed") of the PPD file. It should always take the server default of these options, as these options are set by the system admin on the CUPS server according to the printer's hardware configuration. In addition, the dialog should (if possible) keep track which options the user has actively changed and only save these ones. So changes of the defaults on the server will be respected.
Reassigned to HI.
I think Mathias Bauer might be interested in this bug (in relation to http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75342). Adding mba in cc. Mathias, sorry if you do not wanted to be in CC for this one.
Reassigned to requirements
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