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On Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:20:24 GMT you wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 21 December 2017 23:01:50 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > Is there a default page size setting in your desktop environment that |
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> > could've changed? |
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> This problem is happening across different PCs, desktops/DEs and different |
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> applications. The common factor is they are all using CUPS, the same |
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> brother driver and the default page size of A4. |
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> I'll have another poke tomorrow into the http GUI of the printer and then |
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> try to print with MSWindows to see what happens. |
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MSWindows prints fine, just as Linux used to until recently. I printed a |
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portrait layout from Firefox on both MSWindows and Linux. |
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In MSWindows, the Shrink-to-fit setting made the page fit into the A4 paper, |
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perfectly. |
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In Linux, the top of the page is cropped, the bottom stops short by an |
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equivalent height and the sides are wider. It's as if the page is both |
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misaligned vertically and not shrunk-to-fit. |
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This tells me there's nothing wrong with the printer - half a problem solved! |
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I still can't explain why the Linux cups and brother driver started |
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misbehaving, just because I happened to recompile them with gcc-6.4.0. |
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I'm also not sure what I could tweak to restore the Linux driver's behaviour |
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to what it should be. |
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Any ideas how I could calibrate the paper size in the Linux driver to align |
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with the physical dimensions of A4? The ppd file and its measurements look |
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correct to me, but as you may have figured out, I'm no printing expert ... |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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