On Sunday 16 October 2005 06:57 am, Chris Cannam wrote:

> > The virtual whatever that's getting rendered onto a page is just too big
> > now. [...] Note stems, ledger lines, and all manner of marks,
> > indications and ornaments are showing up decidedly gray on the page. 
> > Closer examination reveals that they are composed of a series of fine
> > parallel lines.
>
> Sounds like something is rescaling the page after it leaves our renderer. 
> Hm.

Further investigation reveals that support for my particular model has fallen 
into some sort of limbo.  One version of Ghostscript has it, another one 
doesn't.  This site says this, that site says that.  The manufacturer 
supports the printer with a package that actually installs correctly, but it 
requires switching to LPR, and I don't know a damn thing about LPR.

It looks like I'm SOL until I wade through a big mess, but the up side is that 
the printer I was looking at for that other guy has a factory LPR and 
CUPS-wrapper driver available, so I can hopefully get it working easily.

This thing is going to need a new drum sooner, rather than later, and a new 
drum is more than 2/3 of the cost of a new printer, so I might just go buy a 
damn Postscript-capable printer and get it over with.  Give this one to the 
kids for printing papers, which it does fine if you watch the margins.

Like I said, it always has had some addressable space problem, and anything 
that pushes the image on page to precise limits suffers from minor alignment 
problems.  This from a printer LinuxPrinting.org rates as "works perfectly" 
with the driver I'm currently using.  What's a man to do?

It's not likely Rosegarden's fault though, and I'll let you know if things are 
still screwed up after I buy the PostScript-capable printer and follow the 
published instructions for telling CUPS to use the factory-supplied PPD.

(A little money in your pocket is a dangerous thing.  If I keep taking this 
approach to problems, I'm going to be broke again very soon.)

-- 
Michael McIntyre  ----   Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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