On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 13:59:06 +0100, maderios wrote: > On 10/31/2016 01:32 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >On Monday 31 October 2016 11:57:45 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > >>Hi, Lisi. > >> > >>On 31/10/16 08:07, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>>>"fit to page" function depends on printer driver settings, not printer > >>>>software. > >>>>You may change your cups/printer settings: > >>>>http://localhost:631/ > >>> > >>>Where? In which section can you make the change you suggest? I remember > >>>and have set a setting for turning pages if necessary, but not one for > >>>fitting to printable area. > >> > >>Maybe it is a "lpr" option: > >> > >>https://www.cups.org/doc/options.html > >> > >>(See "Scaling to Fit") > > > >Thanks! That is helpful. If I hit the problem I'll look into doing it that > >way. Evince worked last time I needed it to do so, and people are saying > >that it still does. > > > >Lisi > > > It depends on many paramaters, for example, postcript printer or not > postscript. In my case, postscript printer, with applications like evince, > firefox, etc..., printing works same way with CTRL+P, then choose -> page > handling -> 'fit to printable area' or 'shrink...' or 'none...'. I think it > is the same for non postscript.
The nature of the printer does not matter. Scaling to Fit with the "fit-to-page" option is a CUPS feature. It is passed on to the pdftopdf filter of cups-filters and can be set with lpr or from those applications which send a file directly to CUPS *without* any previous manipulation of it. The 'fit to printable area' option in the print dialogs of GTK applications such as evince is handled by the GTK printing subsystem with Cairo. Cairo manipulates the file to achieve fitting the image to the printable area *before* it gets sent to CUPS. Okular does not manipulate a file in an evince-like way. It sends the CUPS "fit-to-page" option with every job, but, as observed, there is no "fit-to-page" option in its print dialog to switch it on and off. This is probably the subject of bug report somewhere. -- Brian.
