On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:46:39 +0200 "Duncan Drennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm experiencing the following, and not too sure where the problem > lies. I'm running gschem under cygwin (stable 20070626). > > If I print and use the lpr command which is sending to the default > printer, which in this case is PDF creator (this generates some error > messages in PDF Creator along the way, but that is possibly another > story). It seems to always scale the actual output page size to a > Letter size. The schematic drawing looks scaled correctly (e.g. A4), > but the page size of the PDF (File -> Properties) is always a Letter > size. > > If I follow the route of print to a file (.ps) and then convert to a > PDF the scaling is correct, but the document is not searchable, which > is really a requirement for me. > > I thought that there might be some setting that the lpr command is > always outputting to a Letter page (in cygwin that is, not gschem). > Any thoughts? Maybe your default printer settings are using Letter as a default paper size? Check <start> -> Settings -> Printers -> <your_pdf_printer> and then wrestle through all the tabs in the settings pane searching for default paper size. I recall having had a problem like that in the past. HTH, Hans > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@moria.seul.org > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > -- $ cat .sig /dev/null _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@moria.seul.org http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user