HP DesignJet 1050 prints too short

[Noam]

Oh boy... I think I saw some PERL script months ago...

I am using Debian Sarge. I didn't install any extra stuff. Am I in the 'danger zone'?

Noam

> Noam wrote:
> > If I understand it correctly pdftops uses xpdf to convert the pdf file. The thing is that xpdf can get only letter, legal, A4, A3 or match as paper size. But I want to print out A1, A2 and A0 formats. When I try this with two different printers I get a mess.
>
> The standard CUPS pdftops uses the Xpdf code base, but does NOT use
> the same sizing algorithm as the Xpdf pdftops program.  To make things
> more confusing, several Linux distributors are shipping a perl script
> in place of the CUPS pdftops which does not support the standard CUPS
> options and does not handle media sizes properly.
>
> So my guess would be that you aren't getting the CUPS pdftops filter,
> but the Linux distributor's replacement which is broken.
>
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