[cups.general] Error: No %%BoundingBox: comment in header!

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Fri Mar 23 19:48:31 PDT 2007


On Friday 23 March 2007, Ambrose Li wrote:
>On 23/03/07, Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:
>> You don't need to resolve it, but you also won't be able to safely do
>> N-up processing or fit-to-page on the jobs from your Macs.
>
>Stupid question, but why would n-up processing depend on the
>bounding box? If I want to print n-up, I want the pages to be arranged
>in an n-up fashion irrespective of their bounding boxes (i.e.,  whether
>they are filled or not, or whether the contents are clipped or not, I
> want the pages to be arranged n-up). I wouldn't want them to behave any
> differently depending on their bounding boxes...

Not stupid at all, but please understand that the n-up option does need to 
know the size of the page so it can butt them against each other 
properly.  Without the bonding box data, the best it can do is a SWAG, or 
a segfault, possibly even rejecting the job.


-- 
Cheers, Gene
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