Openoffice.org & kprinter: lose first page when printing 2 pages per sheet

[Arnold Moene]

Dear all,

This problem has also been addressed at the OpenOffice.org forum (see 
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4157). It's unclear to me 
whether the problem is located in OpenOffice.org or in kprinter, or in 
the combination of both.

The problem is as follows:
* in OpenOffice.org I use kprinter --stdin as a printer (defined through 
spadmin)
* as suggested in the above mentioned thread on oooforum I set the 
Postscript level to 1 (both in spadmin and I check it when I actually 
print something).
* the kprinter dialogue is fired up as should be
* I select 2 pages per sheet in the 'properties' dialogue
* what comes out of the printer is a print job which nicely has two 
pages per sheet printed, except for the first page on which the first 
page of the original document (i.e. the left part of the page) is missing.
* when printing 4 pages per sheet, also the first page of the original 
document (i.e. upper left quarter of the page) is missing.
* when I print from OpenOffice.org to a file (Postscript) and pass that 
file through kprinter I get the *correct* output on paper
* also, when defining a printer for OpenOffice.org with the command 
"psnup -2 | lpr", gives *correct* output (i.e. the Postscript produced 
by OpenOffice.org us not so bad that it confuses psnup).

Perhaps people that are more familiar with kprinter might find out what 
is wrong with the connection between OpenOffice.org and kprinter.

In case it helps:

* kprinter --version returns:
Qt: 3.2.3
KDE: 3.2 BRANCH >= 20040204
kprinter: 0.0.1
* OpenOffice.org is version 1.1.2
* Linux is Mandrake 10.0 on i568.


Thanks in advance,

Arnold