[cups.general] scaling pdf file for a poster

[Michael Sweet]

On Aug 23, 2010, at 4:16 AM, John King wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. However, I've tried both:
> 
> lp -d lexmark -o PageSize=Custom.420x594cm -o fitplot=true poster1-100.pdf
> and
> lp -d lexmark -o PageSize=Custom.420x594cm -o fit-to-page=true poster1-100.pdf
> 
> and also setting the PageSize to A2, but in neither case did the pdf scale up to print over 4 pages on my A4 printer.
> I also tried the same commands with a png graphic, and that didn't scale up either.
> I must be going wrong somewhere with the commands and would appreciate some guidance.

What Linux distribution/OS are you using?

What version of CUPS?

> 
> John
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2010, at 1:50 AM, John King wrote:
>> 
>>> =20
>>> 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
>>> =20
>>> $ lp -d lexmark -o scaling=3D200 -o sides=3Done-sided filename
>>> =20
>>> 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.
>>> =20
>>> 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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