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Apparently, though unproven, at 22:22 on Sunday 01 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie |
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did opine thusly: |
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> Hi, Gentoo. |
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> Could somebody please help me with a printing problem. |
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> With a piece of sheet music downloaded from http://imslp.org into xpdf |
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> version 3.02-r4 (the up to datest), when I print it, the image spills |
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> over the right hand edge of the paper. It is 12% too wide and 12% too |
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> high. |
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> For printing, I am using a standard CUPS setup (as described in the |
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> documentation "Gentoo Printing Guide") on a Samsung ML-1450 laser |
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> printer using the driver pxlmono. I have also tried the other two |
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> ML-1450 drivers, ljet4 and lj4dith, which gave the same results. My |
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> page size is and is set to A4. |
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> For comparison, on my old PC using an earlier version of xpdf, the same |
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> page on the same printer (with lprng) prints perfectly. |
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> What have I done wrong? |
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It's likely some weird setting, which makes me think: |
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12% of an A4 page is almost exactly 1" across the width. |
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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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