LibreOffice 6.2.3.2 printing blank paper

Chil_Sandgate · May 11, 2019, 11:04am

Hi all,
Since updating to version 6.2.3.2 a few days ago I am having printing issues. All documents - both new and old - are printing blank sheets. I don’t mean additional blank sheets after the main page, but ALL pages are printing blank.
The issue first arose after updating LO and documents from other programs print fine, so it must be a issue with LibreOffice - and it’s affecting both Writer and Calc.
Any suggestions to cure the problem gratefully received.

Additional info: the problem only occurs when printing directly. If I output as PDF then print the PDF then all works fine.

Additional additional info: I’m using Windows 10 and a Canon MG3550 printer. All was fine until the latest LO update.

ajlittoz · May 11, 2019, 11:41am

Since this involves also the OS printing engine, what is your OS? I had a similar issue some time ago because my printer is an old printer which does not understand PDF natively. I had to configure things so that PostScript was emitted.

Please update your question with the edit link. Don’t use an answer.

Chil_Sandgate · May 11, 2019, 9:28pm

OK everyone, you can stop panicking - I think I’ve solved the problem. It involved uninstalling 6.2.3.2 and re-installing a previous version… then updating to 6.2.3.2 - now everything is back to the way it should be… hurrah!

PatCallahan · August 29, 2020, 9:17pm

Occurs on Lubuntu 20.04.

Blank pages from Libre Office,
Prints just fine from Chrome
Uninstalling Libre office in favor of Gogle Docs?

Reinstalling previous version? Seriously?

Contact me at my gmail and we can figure this out before LIbre Office loses market share.

vibackup · August 20, 2021, 1:01pm

@PatCallahan : exactly the same problem with Version: 6.4.7.2
Build ID: 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.11; UI render: default; VCL: qt5;
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Printing from other applications is fine
Even when trying to generate a PDF, the page is blank.

anon73440385 · August 20, 2021, 2:16pm

@vibackup

This is typical for initial installs of LibreOffice on Ubuntu 20.04 based Linux distributions and using their packaging of LibreOffice (not TDF’s packages from libreoffice.org). Perform the following procedure:

dpkg --list | awk '/ii/&&/libreoffice/{print $2}' | sudo xargs apt purge --yes
sudo apt autoremove --yes
sudo apt update --yes
sudo apt install libreoffice libreoffice-gtk3 libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-help-en-us --yes

Hope that helps in your case as well

vibackup · August 20, 2021, 3:32pm

Hi Uwe!

Great thanks!
Problem is solved; I went via aptitude (purge all LO-packages, update and reinstall them then) before I read your post.
If i get your commands right is that about the same your commands do.
Thank you very much for fast and competent response!

//M

anon73440385 · August 20, 2021, 3:36pm

… not familiar with aptitude, hence I don’t know whether it also performs an autoremove. But in fact my command lines perform a complete uninstall of all LibreOffice related packages, an autoremove of no longer needed packages followed by a new installation of LibreOffice.

panzi · February 16, 2022, 3:28pm

Try to search for UseSkia in the expert settings and set it to false.

At least under my parents M1 Mac Mini that worked (I use Linux but don’t have LibreOffice installed; don’t need any office).

erAck · February 16, 2022, 5:26pm

Skia is a thing only since LibreOffice 7.0 though, where it was used only on Windows, and for 7.3.0 also enabled on macOS, but disabled again for 7.3.1, see also tdf#145843 and tdf#145988.