[cups.general] What will CUPS do if I send A4 to a Letter printer.

[Reg Clemens]

> clemens at dwf.com wrote:
> > 
> > The Subject line says it all.
> > What SHOULD happen if I use lpr to send a document that will
> > want A4 paper to a printer whose PPD file says it only does
> > Letter?
> > 
> > Should I get an error message at the time of the LPR?
> > Later?
> > How?
> > 
> > Or will the print job just sit in the print queue forever?
> > 
> > Or print as best it can?
> 
> In case of a PostScript printer (a native one), you should configure the
> printer
> (the easiest way is to use the "configure printer" button on the web
> interface).
> The printer(s) should support
> a) center and/or scale down the logical page to fit onto the physical
> page
> b) center and/or crop the logical page to the physical page
> c) do nothing special
> e) ask for operator interaction.
> All this can be configured by PostScript code (or, on some printers, by
> job control
> language statements) and should be offered by the printer's PPD.
> 

Is there a CUPS command-line that will do this too?
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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com