[Tfug] Printing problem

[John Gruenenfelder]

On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:37:27PM -0700, Daniel Duerr wrote:
> Jim Secan wrote:
>> Are you using CUPS?  If so, you might check the printer default  
>> settings therein.
>>
>> Jim
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Am using CUPS and it's currently set up to  
> accept letter size paper as well. 
>
> One other suggestion that I ran into when reading about the Okular bug  
> was that printing settings often get saved into document data, PDFs in  
> this case.  Anyone know if those settings override the options that you  
> specify with lp/lpr?  Or if they get saved into other types of documents?

I've had to deal with this before... though rather unsuccessfully if I
recall.  For "print" formats like PDF and PostScript, the paper size is indeed
integral to the final output document.

Sometimes it won't matter.  If you view a ps or pdf file with ghostview (gv)
you can easily change the size of the paper.  If it autodetects A4 you can
change it to Letter to see if the result will still be acceptable when you
actually print it.

To test for a program specific issue rather than a printing system (CUPS,
printer, etc.) issue, try making some new files with a known format.  I would
suggest the utility a2ps (anything to PS).  Give it a plain text file or
source code (it does a great job of pretty printing C) and tell it to
use Letter and you'll get back a Letter formatted PostScript file.  I imagine
Okular can display these as well.


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