[cups.general] un-wanted line wrap

[Michael R Sweet]

john york wrote:
>> On Jul 2, 2009, at 12:47 PM, john york wrote:
>>> I am running centos 2.6 with cups 1.3.7 and attempting to print to
>>> an okidata b4350 connected to a win-98 pc.
>>>
>>> all works well with default 8.5X11 paper in portrait mode.
>>>
>>> when I switch to compressed/landscape mode with -o landscape -o
>>> cpi=15 options in the command line the printer switches to landscape
>>> 15 cpi but cups still wraps the lines at 105 characters (which would
>>> be the 10.5 inches at 10 cpi)
>>>
>>> the -o no-wrap option only causes the wrap to NOT occur if the line
>>> contains no space characters, but still wraps all other lines at the
>>> space nearest the 105 character limit.
>>
>> If you are using the standard texttops filter, "nowrap" (no dash) is
>> the proper option to use.
>>
>> ____________________________________
>> Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>>
> 
> I am using "nowrap" (no dash) I mis-typed it in my post.
> 
> I have discovered that if I use -o media=legal and then manually tell the printer I changed paper it prints the full 132 character line without any line wrap.
> 
> CUPS seems to be ignoring the cpi setting when calculating where to put the line wrap and the "nowrap" option seems to simply say "don't wrap in the middle of a word"

Make sure you are actually using the CUPS text filter - some versions
of RHEL (and thus CentOS) come with a different text filter that does
not implement all of the CUPS options...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer