Apparently, though unproven, at 22:22 on Sunday 01 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie 
did opine thusly:

> Hi, Gentoo.
> 
> Could somebody please help me with a printing problem.
> 
> With a piece of sheet music downloaded from http://imslp.org into xpdf
> version 3.02-r4 (the up to datest), when I print it, the image spills
> over the right hand edge of the paper.  It is 12% too wide and 12% too
> high.
> 
> For printing, I am using a standard CUPS setup (as described in the
> documentation "Gentoo Printing Guide") on a Samsung ML-1450 laser
> printer using the driver pxlmono.  I have also tried the other two
> ML-1450 drivers, ljet4 and lj4dith, which gave the same results.  My
> page size is and is set to A4.
> 
> For comparison, on my old PC using an earlier version of xpdf, the same
> page on the same printer (with lprng) prints perfectly.
> 
> What have I done wrong?

It's likely some weird setting, which makes me think:

12% of an A4 page is almost exactly 1" across the width. 
Do you have some automagic "add 0.5" margin all round" setting active?


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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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