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[ClaudeKrantz <886571@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 879977 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/879977

This bug hits me as well.

Running fully-updated Oneiric (Kubuntu, x86_64) and printing to two
different HP printers (Deskjet 5550 and Laserjet 1320) via a CUPS 1.5.0
server running on FreeBSD 8.2.

The problem is reproducible on two independent machines.  Using PDF as a
printing language in Libreoffice Writer causes two problems:

- Page margins are not correct (usually the text body is shifted towards
the right, I print to DIN A4 paper). This seems to happen regardless of
the content of the document.

- For texts involving German (umlauts ä, ö, ü) or French (accents é, è,
...) special characters, the text is printed as garbadge, with ' or "
characters replacing ca. 50% of the letters. For documents involving
only English characters this does not seem to happen, however a single
non-English character occurring in the document is sufficient to trash
the entire printout.

Switching to Postscript as a printer language in Libreoffice solves both
problems completely. PDF printing from other applications (okular) on
the Linux clients as well as on the BSD server itself works flawlessly.

Downgrading "foomatic-filters" to 4.0.7 as recommended by Age did not
resolve the issue in my case.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/886571

Title:
  printing from libreoffice garbles output

Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If I write a text in libreoffice and then print it, a random subset of
  the characters in the output are replaced with another character (I
  have seen ¨ and u in different documents). If I export as PDF, I can
  print that document without problems.

  I print to the IPP service on a Samsung CLP-610ND printer using the
  recommended foomatic CLP-610 driver (the other CLP-610 and the CLP-
  610ND driver offered by the config panel do always produce a "use the
  proper driver" error page).

  Other people have seen the same behaviour with a HP LaserJet 1022 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1870870
  and a HP Color LaserJet 1600 http://www.ubuntu-forum.de/index.php?page=Thread&postID=337315

  This is a regression in 11.10.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: libreoffice-writer 1:3.4.3-3ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Nov  5 15:36:49 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
  SourcePackage: libreoffice
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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