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

[Gerald Britton]

here's the file I'm trying to print.  I want to print it landscape,
scaled down to fit my page size.  If you can do it for A4 or A3, I
should be able to do it for legal

http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1851_pdf/e096/e002379200.pdf

On 9/27/07, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> After some more experimenting, I used the following command:
>
> lp -o landscape -o media=legal -o fitplot -o PageSize=legal myfile.pdf
>
> the "-o=landscape" actually makes it print portrait!  So I removed that and ran:
>
> lp -o media=legal -o fitplot -o PageSize=legal myfile.pdf
>
> This got me closer to my goal.  The printout was landscape orientation
> (I know, doesn't make sense!) but the scaling was for portrait
> orientation and thus too small!
>
> On 9/27/07, Gerald Britton <gerald.britton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Kurt!  Yes, the $ was just from my prompt, when I cut and
> > pasted my results.  Helge helped me with the other operands as well.
> > I ran the commands and sent the output directly (not to the list,
> > since it is too big).
> >
> > I tried gv as you suggested.  It shrank the pdf to fit the page but
> > didn't obey the printer directive to fit to the nearest size and
> > scale.
> >
>