On Thursday 21 December 2017 12:08:33 Brian wrote: > On Thu 21 Dec 2017 at 11:41:01 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 21 December 2017 06:51:56 Brian wrote: > > > Considering you have lead the discussion back to your invoice > > > problem I'll ask whether the PDF evince produces is viewable, > > > > Yes, exactly as expected. > > Ok, you have just shown that evince produces a decent PDF which looks > suitable to send to CUPS. In other words, the blank page you got does > not apparently involve anything evince has done. > > Now send this PDF to CUPS with > > lp -d <destination_print_queue> <d-file_from_/var/spool/cups> > > <destination_print_queue> will have to re-enabled with > > cupsenable <destination_print_queue> > > Does this print? > > > > and shows what > > > you expect, using what is outlined in > > > > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/12/msg00584.html > > > > cupsdisable <destination_print_queue> > > > > and send the invoice from evince to be printed. Look in > > /var/spool/cups for a file beginning with "d" and view it in a PDF > > viewer. Also use pdfinfo and pdffonts to compare this PDF and the > > original one. > > > > Use cupsenable to revert the first command. > > > > Its not possible, because a disabled printer is ghosted in the > > printer selection menu, yes I do have additional printers, full > > color and 2% of the speed of the $110 HL2140. It can do this is 30 > > seconds including drum warmup time. The tabloid sized 6920, an mfc, > > hasn't even sorted out which paper tray to use in that same 30 > > seconds. > > Please see above. Maybe I should have spelled out the full command. > > > Would I get the same results sending to cups-pdf? > > No. cups-pdf uses CUPS; CUPS was disabled for the test you did. Its > purpose was to determine whether evince was producing a blank PDF. It > wasn't. > > > I can turn that option off on a job by job basis I assume. > > You mean cupsdisable? You could, but it wouldn't ordinarily be used.
No, I was referring to the rotate and fit option. About the only place where I could actually make sense of that would be in printing camera images where the camera may have been held up-down for a portrait image. Thanks Brian. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>