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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:04:32 -0700
From:      Chip Camden <sterling@camdensoftware.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page
Message-ID:  <20100824210432.GB2236@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100824204552.GA70395@guilt.hydra>
References:  <20100824204552.GA70395@guilt.hydra>

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Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 24 August 2010:
> I'm using CUPS on FreeBSD 8.0, and any time I try to print from outside
> Firefox the top and bottom of a PDF gets cut off.  I don't have any means
> installed for printing a PDF from inside Firefox, but Webpages and the
> CUPS test page print just fine from within the browser.  For instance:
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>     /usr/local/bin/lpr -P 4050N sheet.pdf
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> (using an HP 4050N printer)
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> This results in the top and bottom edge of the PDF getting cut off.  I've
> tried tweaking settings in GUI tools such as GtkLP to try to force it to
> print the PDF at a smaller size on the page so it would fit within the
> cut-off points, and it still prints exactly the same way.  I've tried
> adjusting margins in such GUI tools as well, to no avail.  Trying to
> print from Xpdf produces the same problematic results.
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> If there's a command line solution to this, I haven't encountered it.
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> Where should I start looking to figure out the problem?  Unfortunately,
> it looks like the FreeBSD Handbook only deals with lpd.
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> --=20
> Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

I'm not seeing that here, but I don't have a PDF that prints data in the
margins.  If you have one, can you email it to me?

I'm using CUPS, too, but printing to an HP OfficeJet 7310.


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