Printer Margins/Sizing
Helge Blischke
h.blischke at srz.de
Fri Mar 31 02:47:56 PST 2006
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
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> *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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