[Gambas-user] Suddenly no more color printing

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 01/09/2019 à 13:49, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
> Am 31.08.19 um 17:10 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>> Le 31/08/2019 à 16:53, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>>> One of my programs should be able to print PDFs with colors 
>>> (background colors in table cells).
>>>
>>> It did so last year and it did so during winter. But when I use it 
>>> now, it suddenly makes grayshades instead of the colors.
>>>
>>> As far as I remember, I have not changed anything in these code parts 
>>> (printing part), and I guess it's the same Gambas version (3.12.2 on 
>>> Ubuntu Mate 18.04.2). There are outstanding updates, and I haven't 
>>> updated the system for couple of months, but alas...
>>>
>>> Where would you look first? I need these colored tables...
>>>
>>> Thanks for your ideas!
>>>
>>> Rolf
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Did you explicitly specified a coloured printing? Maybe the default 
>> printer configuration has changed?
>>
> 
> Ah ok, that was it. I had to define Grayscale = False.
> 
> Just wonder why it ran this way until couple of months ago. Don't 
> remember an update.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 

I don't know how CUPS (the printing systemà) works, but I guess you 
could have default global configuration, default configuration by user, 
and even default configuration by application. Who knows?

-- 
Benoît Minisini