[cups] IP110 printer left margin too small Kubuntu 16.04

[Hans van der Leeuw]

Hello Bart,
I'm not really familiar with Cups. I did not got it working with my Canon
lbp5000. I have the impression that just a few people are very familiar
with Cups.
Just to keep you going; may be a macro in LO can do the trick?
Google for: LO macro opnemen.
Works for Writer as well.
Regards, Hans
Op 5 mei 2016 21:07 schreef "Xen" <list at xenhideout.nl>:

> Hans van der Leeuw schreef op 05-05-2016 20:52:
>
>> Hello Xen,
>> There is a lot of help available regarding LibreOffice (LO), also in
>> Dutch.
>>
>> Google is your friend; search for:
>> libreoffice margins
>>
>> Suc6
>>
>
> I just told you I didn't need help with LibreOffice. I need help with
> everything else because I cannot always adjust margins, and if I do, I need
> to adjust them each and every time in the printer settings, which is often
> a guess.
>
> Currently the best solution I have is to just send the output to PDF and
> then try to transform the PDF in case there is enough margins for that in
> the document (most notably the left margin of course, because it gets
> reduced).
>
> So what I mean is that I am now using:
>
> gs \
>   -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dSAFER \
>   -dCompatibilityLevel="1.3" -dPDFSETTINGS="/printer" \
>   -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true \
>   -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile="out.pdf" \
>   -c "<</BeginPage{21.5 0 translate}>> setpagedevice" \
>   -f in.pdf
>
> To shift my PDF 21.5 PS points to the right, and then it prints perfectly
> whatever program I am using without having to adjust the margins all the
> time, and based on math rather than good luck and endless retrying.
>
> I am not sure it is going to work for Kate sources (imagine printing
> everything to PDF before you can actually print it) because Kate uses
> smaller margins to begin with, so I have experimentally determined that I
> need to set the left margin to 0.55" and the right I am not sure yet
> (something like 0.06"). But I might do the same for Kate as well.
>
> It is not a real solution but at least it allows me to print without too
> much wasted time.
>
> I think I will create a script called "shiftright.sh" that just takes an
> input parameter and then shifts it to the right and creates an
> $1-shifted.pdf as a result. Ideally maybe it would also send it directly to
> the printer.
>
> Or just open it in Okular, that would be good too. Just trying to make a
> bad situation a bit less bad ;-).
>
> My printer also doesn't remember margin settings (the software doesn't) so
> I need to do it in this way.
>
> Regards, Bart.
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