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

Gerald Britton gerald.britton at gmail.com
Thu Sep 27 14:08:21 PDT 2007


Thanks for working on this, Kurt.  I've learned a lot in the process
and that never hurts.  I'm disappointed that I can't reach my ultimate
goal, but I can do it easily with acrobat reader on windows (a couple
of clicks and it's rotated and scaled perfectly).  I just trying NOT
to use windows for stuff like this.

On 9/27/07, Kurt Pfeifle <k1pfeifle at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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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