This is very likely not to be an openoffice issue since openoffice has not been changed in Ubuntu 8.04 since Jun 27, 2008. So the fact that updates fix and break printing in openoffice probably is due to something else, maybe cups, causing the problem?
This is very likely not to be an openoffice issue since openoffice has not been changed in Ubuntu 8.04 since Jun 27, 2008. So the fact that updates fix and break printing in openoffice probably is due to something else, maybe cups, causing the problem?