Printer Margins/Sizing

[Anonymous]

I found a .ps file that doesn't work:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Eluca/pubs/stoc00kt.ps

That a .ps file doesn't work seems to imply it's not a .pdf->.ps conversion problem (which I suspected anyway, but it's good to have proof...).  Oh by the way, I converted this file into a .pdf file and printed it out:  it turns out exactly the same.  I held the print-outs from the .ps and .pdf files up to the light and they're exactly the same.

What get's printed out is a finger of whitespace followed by "for Error-Correcting Codes" (the second line of the title) followed by text then followed by three fingers of whitespace.  That is to say, the document looks cut off, scaled down, and off center in the up/down direction.  In the left/right direction, it is off center and maybe or maybe not scaled down.

Thanks if you can suggest something!

> Anonymous wrote:
> >
> > Oh yeah.  /etc/papersize is set right, I've restarted the CUPS server after making changes, and I've even rebooted many times.  I also made some additional changes to the .ppd file, changing
> >
> > *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "18 36 594 783"
> >
> > to
> >
> > *ImageableArea Letter/Letter: "12 12 600 780"
> >
> > but the problem persists.  Nothing I do to any configuration file seems to make any change at all in what comes out of the printer.
> >
> > > Would someone be kind enough to show diagram how CUPS printing works?  (Or send me a link to the page?)  I'm hoping if I get a better understanding, I can fix my problem:
> > >
> > > The margins of my printer are set wrong.  (It prints out this certain pdf file right in Windows, but not in Linux.)  I've used alignmargins to change my ppd.  I made sure I have up-to-date everything.  I have the recommended ppd for my printer.  (I have an HP Inkjet which is considered "well supported.")  I tried changing /etc/cups/lpoptions, I tried invoking lp with different command line options, and I tried changing options in kprinter.  I tried with five different pdf viewers (acroread, xpdf, gpdf, kpdf, and something else I forget now), each time printing once through lp and once through kprinter.
> > >
> > > In all these cases, the outcome was exactly the same.  The result:  each one is off centered and some of the pdf file has been cut off in exactly the same way.  Apparently, none of different things I modified have any affect on the outcome.  And since I know things work perfectly in Windows, I just must have a fundamental misunderstanding of how the printing configuration files work in CUPS.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help.
>
> It might be a matter of the various ...box specifications (/MediaBox, /CropBox, /TrimBox, ...)
> in the PDF. Please post (an URL to) a sample file.
>
> Helge
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