[cups.general] PDF documents only print letter

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Thu Nov 13 07:42:15 PST 2008


Michael R Sweet wrote:
> Richard Ledford wrote:
> 
>> Sir Mike or ?
>>
>> When we queue up pdf documents to print, some of the pages are letter
>> and some are legal, but we only print letter on our HP 9050 printer,
>> printer does not reconized that some of the documents are legal and
>> prints all pdf documents to the letter tray. How can I fix this
>> issue?
> 
> 
> The pdftops filter in CUPS 1.1.x (which is what came with ESP Print
> Pro) did not set the page size, so it won't auto-size the document.
> The best you can do is use the "-o fitplot" option to scale the legal
> pages to letter size.
> 
> Alternately, you can specify legal size when printing documents you
> know are legal size (-o media=legal).
> 

.... or use the "alternate pdftops filter" with xpdf's pdftops version 3.02
installed and set the default to "paper match".

Helge


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