Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008241805300.96896@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100824225829.GA70716@guilt.hydra> References: <20100824204552.GA70395@guilt.hydra> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008241546350.96400@wonkity.com> <20100824225829.GA70716@guilt.hydra>
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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.
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