Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory,
allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to
normal...
=== Cameron Mura wrote (on 11/28/2012 09:39 PM): ===
Hello,
apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this
list occurred to me as one place to ask the question...)
In a nutshell: I'm wondering if anyone could point me to useful
resources that describe where user-specific Postscript
information/customizations/etc. are stored on a standard, vanilla
Fedora installation ? I really do mean /user-specific/ (not global)
preferences here, so I imagine the info/settings probably live
somewhere in $HOME/, but my Linux/Fedora print config knowledge has
become outdated and quite rusty... I tried some obvious things -- like
blasting away the $HOME/.gtklp that exists if one has GtkLP installed
(this is a GTK frontend to CUPS) -- but all this was to no avail, my
page-scaling problem persists. I've also searched extensively online
for the info (queries like "linux postscript user customization
file"), but still can't find anything.
A bit of backstory: Suddenly, any email I print from Thunderbird, by
sending to the default print queue, ends up being scaled-down by a
factor of ~0.8x, positioned flush-left and flush-bottom on the
standard-sized (8.5"x11" letter) paper. I learned the following from
various troubleshooting efforts and tests:
1. problem is not the printer itself -- e.g., a simplex queue on
the same printer works fine (problem is I use duplex)
2. problem is not Thunderbird-specific -- I initially thought I
must have mung'd a t-bird setting in prefs.js or something like
that, but turns out that's not the problem -- interestingly,
this scaling problem does /not/ occur if I print a PDF file to
the troublesome print queue, but it /does/ occur if I print a
postscript file from any postscript-aware app (e.g. okular),
which led me to conclude it's some generic postscript config
problem...
3. problem is not global, but rather is user-specific -- the
scaling problem does not occur with another user account on the
same machine
>From the above I deduced it's some user-specific Postscript
weirdness, and was hoping this could be traced to something in $HOME,
but for the life of me I can't get any further.... maybe I'm missing
something obvious?!?
...any tips or pointers to online resources would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
cam
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