[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #1314: Wrong argins when printing PDFdocuments from commandline

[Helge Blischke]

Francesco Turco wrote:
> 
> [STR New]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've got a problem when printing PDF documents from the command line (via
> the "lp" or "lpr" commands): the margins are wrong.
> 
> These are the links to some of the PDFs I tried:
> http://web.mate.polimi.it/servizi/webspace/ld/49/rispostestud.pdf
> http://www.elet.polimi.it/upload/negri/INFORMATICAI/esercitazioni/manstudI1.pdf
> 
> These are some informations about them:
> 
> fctk at thorium ~ $ pdfinfo manstudI1.pdf
> Title:          1
> Author:         Steve Harris
> Producer:       OpenOffice.org 1.1.0
> CreationDate:   Thu Aug 26 19:15:56 2004
> Tagged:         no
> Pages:          13
> Encrypted:      no
> Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
> File size:      621183 bytes
> Optimized:      no
> PDF version:    1.4
> 
> fctk at thorium ~ $ pdfinfo rispostestud.pdf
> Title:          C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\analisiI\ris
> Creator:        PSCRIPT.DRV Version 4.0
> Producer:       GNU Ghostscript 7.05
> CreationDate:   02/21/05 16:48:41
> Tagged:         no
> Pages:          2
> Encrypted:      no
> Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
> File size:      117034 bytes
> Optimized:      no
> PDF version:    1.3
> 
> Please note I tried *a lot* of PDFs, not only the previous ones, and
> *none* of them works correctly.
> 
> Here is how I proceeded.
> 
> In CUPS control panel (webserver) I set the A4 page size. Then I printed
> the PDFs both the following commands:
> * lp -o media=a4 -o page-ranges=1 -o page-border=single-thick file.pdf
> * lpr -o media=a4 -o page-ranges=1 -o page-border=single-thick file.pdf
> 
> Then I measured the space between the thick black border and the border of
> the sheet of paper:
> * top: none (i can't see the black border)
> * bottom: 23mm (way too much for my taste)
> * left: 2-3mm
> * right: 6mm
> 
> My printer is an Epson CX-3200. My OS is Gentoo Linux. Kernel version is
> 2.6.12.
> 
> Here is the version of the software I'm using:
> * net-print/cups-1.1.23-r4  +cjk -gnutls +nls -pam -samba -slp -ssl
> * media-gfx/gimp-print-5.0.0_beta4  +cups -foomaticdb -gtk +nls +ppds
> -readline
> 
> Please note I really think the printer is working properly, becouse I can
> print correctly with OpenOffice for example, and even from Gpdf I obtain
> much better results (I can't measure the margins in this case becaouse I
> don't know how to draw a black border around the page).
> 
> Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L1314
> Version: 1.1.23

Both the PDFs specify the correct A4 media box (no crop box) for all of the pages. Thus
the pdftops filter should pass the proper page size.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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