[cups.general] Option scaling doesn't work

[Michael R Sweet]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Cups is 1.3.7, x86 box, fedora 8 installed.
> 
>>From my /etc/cups/printers.conf:
> 
> <Printer lp3>
> Info Brother HL-2140 series
> Location Local Printer
> DeviceURI usb://Brother/HL-2140%20series
> State Idle
> StateTime 1210793170
> Accepting Yes
> Shared Yes
> JobSheets none none
> QuotaPeriod 0
> PageLimit 0
> KLimit 0
> OpPolicy default
> ErrorPolicy stop-printer
> Option scaling 80 <--this does not work, and logs no errors
> Option page-left 72 <--this does work as expected, in points of left margin
> </Printer>
> 
> How can I either reduce the size of the default font, or make the scaling 
> work?
> 
> The problem is that even with Option page-left 0, the result is a large font 
> that line wraps at about the 73rd character.

As documented, scaling is an IMAGE option and does not apply to text
files.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer