On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:01:43AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 23:49 +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>>> You may have luck printing to PDF file (find them in ~/Xprintjobs) >>> and sending the pdf file to your printer. >> How do you expect me to send it to my printer? Convert it to >> PostScript and send it to the Cups queue? The printer doesn't have >> an FTP server, nor an HTTP/IPP server. > From the command line, "lp output.pdf". OK. > Or the print button in your pdf viewer. Well, this converts to postscript and sends the postscript to the cups queue. >> And now... the problem has mysteriously disappeared! I changed the >> setting multiple times, each time printing from Galeon, and I >> always got a quarter-page. I started testing with Mozilla, I was >> getting a quarter-page, too, with different settings. I change the >> setting one last time, restart Mozilla, and it works! Back to >> galeon... it works! I don't understand a thing of how this is >> behaving. Veeery strange. Well, thanks for your suggestions. > Hmm, quite odd. Perhaps the fix was in the ppd file? I understood > you downloading a fresh version of it for the testing we did above. I downloaded the latest PPD, but it was byte-to-byte identical to the one I already had, except that the "default paper size" was a4 instead of letter. >> PDF and PS files are still wrong, though. Probably I should do a >> separate bug report about these. > When you say the PS file is wrong, do you mean it's grossly > mis-scaled when you view in gv? This is a known problem, I think > it's already reported. Yes, I mean that. -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
