Scaling problem printing to CUPS from non-KDE apps

[icebiker]

Well I mostly sorted this out. I used a different printer in Mozilla 
(still don't really understand what's going on there), and I wasn't 
using dia properly.

Sorry for the noise.

/icebiker

icebiker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I set up my printer using the KDE printing manager. The test page came 
> out perfectly, and anything I print from a KDE app is fine. But, when I 
> print from a non KDE app such as Mozilla or dia (a diagraming tool like 
> Visio), the image is much larger (at least twice as large as it should 
> be), and runs off the page.   lpr-ing a raw text file seems to produce 
> reasonable output.
> 
> I'm printing to an HP932C on an XP/Pro box through samba. I'm using the 
> hpijs.ppd, and the nickname is "HP DeskJet 932C Foomatic/hpijs 
> (recommended)"
> 
> I'm figuring I've got some sort of filter problem, that maybe the wrong 
> filter is being selected. How do I know what format applications use to 
> print in? How does that communicated to CUPS?
> 
> /icebiker
> 
>