[cups.general] Postscript file coming out wrong.

[Helge Blischke]

Alex Finch wrote:
> 
>   The attached postscript file looks fine under gv, and it is ok if I don't
> print via cups. Under cups I just see the bottom left corner of the page,
> equivalent to about 1/16 what I should see. I tried running pstops by hand on
> the file, and the output then prints ok, so what on earth is happening?
> 
> This is the output from pstops when run by hand, if it helps...
> 
> DEBUG: 0 %%Title: test.ps (Portrait A 4)
> DEBUG: 0 %%Pages: (atend)
> DEBUG: 0 %%Creator: HIGZ Version 1.27/03
> DEBUG: 0 %%CreationDate: 2005/02/04   14.11
> DEBUG: 0 %%EndComments
> DEBUG: 0 %%BeginProlog
> DEBUG: 0 %%EndProlog
> DEBUG: 0 %%Page: number 1
> DEBUG: 0 %%Page: number 1
> PAGE: 1 1
> DEBUG: pw = 576.0, pl = 720.0
> DEBUG: PageLeft = 18.0, PageRight = 594.0
> DEBUG: PageTop = 756.0, PageBottom = 36.0
> DEBUG: PageWidth = 612.0, PageLength = 792.0
> DEBUG: 0 %%Trailer
> DEBUG: Saw Trailer!
> DEBUG: Saw EOF!
> 

Well, the file severly violates Adobe's DSC conventions.
If your printer(s) *do* print on A4 media by default, you could try to
print this stuff as a raw job ("-o raw" as command line option).

Depending on your workflow (which I don't know anything of but have some 
guesses), there may be several methods of a workaround.

Helge

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