From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 25 00:12:43 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B64B41065693 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:12:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 709E28FC15 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o7P0CeYQ096947; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id o7P0Cet3096944; Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Chad Perrin In-Reply-To: <20100824225829.GA70716@guilt.hydra> Message-ID: References: <20100824204552.GA70395@guilt.hydra> <20100824225829.GA70716@guilt.hydra> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:40 -0600 (MDT) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:12:43 -0000 On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:49:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> >> The LJ4050 is a great printer, but it doesn't print PDFs natively. >> >> So you need to find what CUPS is using to convert PDFs to PostScript and >> adjust that. It may be an A4 to letter conversion, or it's trying to >> "intelligently" scale the page to fit your printer. > > CUPS is a black box to me, filled with black magic. Me too. That's why I use lpd. > I've got both pdf2ps and pdftops on the system. I'm not sure which is > being used by CUPS, and I'm not really sure where to check. If I had to > guess, I'd say it's pdf2ps, since I think ghostscript fits into this > somewhere. > > Interestingly, if I use either one of these individually to translate > from PDF to PS, then print using /usr/local/bin/lpr to print, the same > problem occurs -- so it's not specific to either of those tools. I > really do seem to be having a problem with CUPS behavior itself. Could you send me the PDF? As Chip Camden noted, it could be a problem with the printable area not being correct. CUPS should get that information from a PPD file--I think. Do you have the correct PPD installed...er...wherever it should be installed? Or maybe that's automatic, and you just need to set CUPS to the right printer.