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

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Gerald Britton wrote:
> here's the file I'm trying to print. 


I found it already in the meanwhile  :-)

And I mailed you *my* results, which look perfect for "fitplot to
Letter".


> I want to print it landscape,


No, you don't want to. Honest. :-)

In 99.99% of cases, it will do the wrong thing when applied to PDF
file printing. I don't believe your case is amongst the 0.01%  :-)


> 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


OK, I'll repeat the test for legal, and let you know the result.


> 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.
>>>
> 



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