Printing problems with 2.8

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Tue Nov 30 15:57:14 PST 2004


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Kevin Oberman wrote:
| When I upgraded my Gnome to 2.8 and I am generally happy with things. I
| was especially happy to see the improvements to the printing widgets. I
| suddenly get a list of all of the printers in my printcap file and can
| pick any of them. Of course, "Generic Postscript" is still available.
|
| The problem I am having may be outside of Gnome, but I am not really
| sure. If I print to any printer except "Generic Postscript", I get a
| margin added to the document. This is even though the document already
| has a margin. This results in off-center printing in the best case and
| wrapping to another page in many cases. But, printing to "Generic
| Postscript" adds no margin and the output is perfect.
|
| Am I missing something in my configuration? Is it a CUPS thing or is it
| Gnome?

This might be CUPS, or one of the GNOME CUPS pieces.  They provide that
nice list of available printers.  I would see if other non-GNOME
CUPS-enabled applications produce the same margin.  If so, then it's
probably a CUPS problem.  If not, then it could be a bug with
libgnomeprint's CUPS support.  If the latter, I recommend opening a
Bugzilla bug unless one of the FreeBSD GNOME CUPS users wants to step up
and look at this.

Joe

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