[cups.bugs] Options fitplot and fit-to-page.

[Michael Sweet]

What version of CUPS?

What OS/Linux Distribution?


On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:36 AM, "G.W. Haywood" <cups at jubileegroup.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I've been tearing out what little hair I have left trying to scale PDF
> files to A4 using command line options to lp.  The files are mostly
> engineering drawings which were originally created for A2 sheets.
> 
> The man page for lp talks about the fitplot option.  It's listed under
> "COMMON JOB OPTIONS".  It didn't seem to do anything at all.  Grepping
> the CUPS source I see not only that fitplot has been deprecated, but
> also that it appears specifically to apply only to HP-GL/2 plot files.
> This is not mentioned in the man pages.
> 
> The scaling option doesn't work here either, using both "scaling=10"
> and "scaling=30" produces a plot of about 2 inches by 3 inches from
> the A2 PDF drawings, centred in the A4 page.
> 
> Finally I stumbled across the fit-to-page option which worked at last
> but doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the man pages.
> 
> Can I send you a patch for the man pages, and if so where and how?
> 
> --
> 
> 73,
> Ged.
> 
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair