PDF documents only print letter

[Helge Blischke]

Richard Ledford wrote:
>>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
>>
>>
>>--
>>Helge Blischke
>>Softwareentwicklung
>>
>>H.Blischke at acm.org
> 
> 
> Helge,
> 
> Hmmm, I like your recommendation, just a few questions;
> 
> my pdftops appears to be a older version (/usr/bin/pdftops: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.2.5, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped) or I don't know how to check it for version correctly or not, if it is not the suggest version 3.02 how do I get it?
> 
> Also I am not sure what you mean by ""alternate pdftops filter"
> 
> I do really apprentice all your help.
> 
> Richard
> 
> 

executing
pdftops -v
will tell you the version number.
3.02 (the latest one) is my recommendation, but
3.00 and 3.01 wil do as well.

As for the "alternate pdftops filter", see the links on the CUPS web site.

Helge
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Helge Blischke
Softwareentwicklung

H.Blischke at acm.org