printer output from oodraw cropped, ps file has the info

[Helge Blischke]

Brad Langhorst wrote:
> 
> when printing from oo draw (it's a deposit slip)
> the output is truncated.
> 
> I think it must have something to do with a ps feature, but I don't know
> much about postscript so I'm not sure.
> 
> gv crops it by default but shows everything if you switch it to "letter"
> instead of "BBox"
> evince crops it
> display (from imagemagick) crops it
> gimp2.0 opens it fine (with bounding box checked or unchecked)
> kghostview opens it fine too
> 
> I thought this was a problem with openoffice
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59318
> 
> but they don't think so, and given that kghostview reads the file okay
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Is this a problem with esp-ghostscript?
> Or maybe kghostview is just less sophisticated?
> 
> the oo bug has the .ps file
> http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/32369/deposit.ps
> 
> brad

It is a matter of gv and other display applications which interprete the (some) DSC comments.
The %%BoundingBox comment at the end of the job is OK, but the %%PageBoundingBox comment
at the beginning of the page clearly defines some cropping. Insofar is seems to be
an oo issue nonetheless.

Helge

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