[cups] Printing A5 PDF on A4

[Helge Blischke]

Christian,

your printers should have the correct PPD assigned, and the respective  
PPD reflects the defaults CUPS uses unless specific options
are specified, so CUPS should know about the page size and tray used.

For further diagnosis, please do:
–	cupsctl --debug-logging
–	print a test job using the option position=top
–	cupsctl --no-debug-logging
and post (an URL to) the portion of /var/log/cups/error_log
which contains all the messages referring to the test job.

Helge


Am 25.03.2014 um 16:57 schrieb Christian Mahnke:

> Hi Helge,
>> It depends ... :
>> In case you use the cups-filters package from openprinting.org  
>> (which uses PDF-oriented workflow), the position option
>> should work, as the pdftopdf filter honours this option (tested on  
>> an Ubuntu based box with cups-filgters 1.0.18).
>> Note that the filter needs to know the media size, either by PDF  
>> default or specified by the media option.
>> If not, i.e. you use plain CUPS, then the position option only  
>> works for printing images, so you are out of luck.
>
> Thanks for your reply, my problem is that my application doesn’t  
> know which paper tray is available, most of my printers are jus for  
> on purpose and only have a A5 tray. They work as expected, but some  
> are multi purpose printers which are loaded with paper size A4. Is  
> it possible the ask Cups for the installed trays and then have  
> another script either use a cups-filter or not?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Christian
>
>
>> Helge
>>
>>
>> Am 24.03.2014 um 18:24 schrieb Christian Mahnke:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>> I’m trying to print a A5 PDF (landscape) on the upper half of a A4  
>>> page using lpr, using the man page I didn’t find an option how to  
>>> do this (-o position=top doesn’t work). By defaults the A5 is  
>>> printed vertically centered on the A4 page, what am I missing...
>>>
>>> I’m using CUPS 1.5.2:
>>>
>>> bash-3.2$ cups-config --version
>>> 1.5.2
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Christian
>>>
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