On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 20:31 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 15 May 2010 15:46:36 -0400, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 13:50 +0000, Camaleón wrote: > > >> Mmmm... I'm not sure to fully understand the problem :-? > > (...) > > >> Is that what are you referring about or are you (or your clients) > >> experiencig another problem? > > > In this case, the client had a Ricoh MP W3600 plotter although, if I > > recall correctly, we had the same problem with all the printers - it was > > just more obvious with the plotter. Let's say they wanted to send a > > 24x36 drawing to the plotter. If they send it through any of the FOSS > > PDF viewers, it prints a 24x36 job but the image is always the default > > paper size, i.e., the drawing would be reduced to 8.5x11 and printed in > > the middle of a 24x36 piece of paper. In some cases, we sent two pages > > per side - reducing and rotating the drawings to fit two per page. In > > this case, two 8.5x11 images appeared on the large sheet! > > I see... just two things: > > 1/ Printer driver is vital for a correct paper size detection, but I've > seen that Ricoh provides a PostScript driver for that device (MP W3600 > plotter) so this shouldn't be a problem at all in your case. Yup - we are using the Ricoh supplied PPD > > 2/ Printer settings (in CUPS) and PDF viewer settings paper size for > printing. These values are also important, I mean, if you are sending a > PDF file with a custom size you have to previously (an manually) adjust > the paper size settings accordingly before sending the job for printing. > This can be done in Evince very easily. The PPD had most of the needed paper sizes for the plotter. We did add a custom size or two.
The current workaround is to use a custom printer and send it to kprinter :-( > > If you do not tweak this, the default CUPS settings for that printer will > prevail for the job. > > > Acroread is not without flaws either. Versions previous to 9.3.2 could > > not see our CUPS print server's printers. 9.3.2 can see them but, > > whenever it prints, it sends the default page region. Thus, if I > > directly choose, say this 3600 plotter, and send a 36x48 drawing, I see > > acroread has created a print job with -o PageSize=36x48 but also with -o > > PageRegion=A4 (or whatever either the ppd default is or the first > > PageRegion listed in the ppd if no default is defined). We've seen the > > same thing when trying to send 11x17 jobs to other printers - it prints > > Letter size (or whatever the default PageRegion is). We've escalated to > > Ricoh but this really smells like an acroread bug. > > Yep. Acrobat Reader has its own glitches. Last time I tested in a linux > box (that was 2 years ago) was not very "friendly" when choosing the > printer and/or printer options and required manual user intervention :-/ > > OTOH, it made "auto-scalation" and "auto-rotation" of the output document > quite well :-) > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1273962322.17789.9.ca...@family.pacifera.com
