Problems printing PDF files through cups.

[Helge Blischke]

Gerald Britton wrote:
>>I'm running CUPS 1.2.8 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04.  I have a PDF file that I want to print.  I issue the command:
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>>lp -d printername myfile.pdf
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>>The results are not good.  The printout is scaled up about 8 times so I only get a bit of the top left corner
>>
>>Next, I add "-o pdftops"
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>>This time, all I get from the printer is a blank page!
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>>After reading the pdftops filter, I noticed the option "pdf-page" so I added "-o pdf-page=letter" to the command.  This time the output is scaled  down about 50% but it is cut off on the right.
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>>Next, i add "-o landscape".  My full command now is:
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>>lp -d printername -o pdftops -o pdf-page=letter -o landscape myfile.pdf
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>>Thinking this would do it, I went to the printer only to find that the landscape option had apparently been ignored.  The output is still printed with portrait orientation and cut off on the right hand side. (Scaling was the same at about 50%)
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>>I'm desperate to know how to print my file with landscape orientation and scaled to fit letter-sized paper.
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>>Printer info:
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>></Printer>
>><DefaultPrinter printer0198>
>>Info HP 9040mfp via ipp
>>Location in the corner by the door
>>DeviceURI ipp://10.18.16.253
>>State Idle
>>StateTime 1190638965
>>Accepting Yes
>>Shared Yes
>>JobSheets none none
>>QuotaPeriod 0
>>PageLimit 0
>>KLimit 0
>>OpPolicy default
>>ErrorPolicy retry-job
>></Printer>
>>
>>pdftops version:
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>>$ pdftops -v
>>pdftops version 3.00
>>Copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC
>>
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> 
> 
> Correction,  the option "-o pdftops" above should be "-o fitplot" so the final command is:
> 
> lp -d printername -o fitplot -o pdf-page=letter -o landscape myfile.pdf
> 

Discard the "-o pdf-paper=letter" to activate the default pdf-paper=match
from the config file. The fitplot option together with the default media size
for your printer as defined by your printer's PPD should scale down the page
as required.
If the orientation does not match, try -o orientation=n (n ab integer between
0 and 3). One of those combinations should do the job.

If all that fails, get the alternate pstops filter (you may get a precompiled
binary from me for Linux, Unixware, or Solaris).

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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