Gregory Pittman wrote: > kreinert at esu7.org wrote: >> Hello! My students and I are attempting to create a HS newspaper using >> Scribus, and one "issue" we are having is printing drafts of what is going >> on 'on the computer screen.' We have a "custom" size of paper...12.5 x >> 22.5," and a regular HP Laserjet printer. What can I do so that we can print >> out"minature drafts"? Thanks for your help. >> >> > Hi Kari, > > My suggestion is /not/ to print it at all. Make a PDF and view the PDF. > That's what Scribus is designed to do, and I think you can trust your > PDF viewer to show it like it is.
Yep. The PostScript printing support is very much a second citizen to PDF export. Adobe Reader with a Scribus PDF _will_ do a better job, and is really the only option if you use transparency in your documents. That said, it should still work just fine except for transparency, at least on *nix (including Mac OS X) with CUPS. Features should be limited by CUPS and your PPDs rather than Scribus. I thought CUPS supported scaling to the physical page, but that might be something specific to the network laser printers I use at work. If you're on win32, it uses a GDI-based print process that also seems to work pretty well, and should give you access to the full facilities of your printer drivers. -- Craig Ringer
