[cups.general] Problems printing PDF files through cups.

[Helge Blischke]

H.Blischke at srz-berlin.com
H.Blischke at acm.orgGerald Britton wrote:
> Yes, the printer has a web interface, but there's nothing there that I
> can see to change what I get in this case.
> 
> I'm actually looking for a non-printer-specific solution, since I also
> print similar documents at home on a low-end printer.
> 
> I had hoped that I could produce similar results (albeit more slowly
> and with reduced quality) on a $200 printer as a $10000 printer.  I am
> looking for a level of abstraction in cups to do that sort of thing.
> 
> What is particularly galling, is that producing the results I am
> looking for -- printing a pdf scaled to fit the page size on any given
> printer in landscape orientation -- is a point-and-shoot operation on
> windows but, thusfar, unachievable with cups (at least the version I'm
> running)
> 
> Soon I'll be able to try cups 1.3.2.  Maybe then....
> 
> On 9/27/07, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> 

As a last try, could you run the pdftops filter and the pstops filter
"by hand" from the command line and post the respective output?

I'd badly like to know what the reason is that it does not work
at your site.

Helge

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Helge Blischke
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H.Blischke at acm.org