[cups.general] scaling pdf file for a poster

[Michael Sweet]

Use the "fitplot" option or (in CUPS 1.4 and later) the new "fit-to-page" option to tell the PDF filter to scale to fit.

On Aug 22, 2010, at 1:50 AM, John King wrote:

> 
> I use the following to scale an image so that my lexmark c532 prints 4 pages of A4 which can be stuck together to produce an A3 poster
> 
> $ lp -d lexmark -o scaling=200 -o sides=one-sided filename
> 
> I'd like to do the same with a pdf file of an A4 page, but this does not seem to work.  There is no error message, but the resulting printout is a single A4 sheet with no scaling applied.
> 
> I see from the lp man pages that the scaling section specifically refers to image files.  Is there any way of applying the same procedure to pdfs?
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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair