On 03/10/2009 09:05 AM, David Karr wrote:
> I prefer to print documents 4 pages per sheet, double-sided. I've done this
> for a long time on Windows, and now Ubuntu. After it prints, I bind the
> listings with a hard plastic spine that covers about the left quarter inch
> of the sheet. When I did this on Windows, this worked perfectly. On Ubuntu,
> this works just about as well, with one minor annoyance. The resulting
> physical gutter is just slightly too small, so I have to pull the paper out
> of the spine an eighth of an inch or so.
>
> Is there any way to alter how the physical page view is rendered, so that
> the resulting physical gutter is a little larger?
>
> I believe I have the same issue when I print from Firefox, so this problem
> isn't exclusive to OpenOffice.
>
The issue may be your printer driver.
I had a similar issue when printing labels from OOo. I would have to
physically modify my label templates each time - two spaces inserted
before each label text... At first I swore that it was OOo, as I could
print the same doc (.odt) from Windows in a virtual machine and it would
align perfectly.
It was only by chance that I discovered that (in linux) I was using the
Gutenprint driver rather than Turboprint (commercial driver that I
normally use). As soon as I changed the printer driver to Turboprint,
the labels aligned and printed perfectly. And of course in Windows, OOo
was using the commercially supplied Windows driver software that came
with the printer.
I went back and tested other programs as well (Gimp, Inkscape,
StarOffice, Lotus Sympony etc.) and found that everything was slightly
off with the Gutenprint vs the Turboprint driver.
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