Hi, Alan. On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:06:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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? What I've done is to replace cups and foomatic with lprng and apsfilter (which was not without its own problems). lprng/apsfilter prints just as oversized as cups/foomatic. What they have in common is ghostscript. I suspect there's some misconfiguration in ghostscript. > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
