printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

Robert Bonomi bonomi at mail.r-bonomi.com
Thu Aug 26 06:31:55 UTC 2010


> From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org  Tue Aug 24 16:31:11 2010
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:31:29 -0700
> From: Chip Camden <sterling at camdensoftware.com>
> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page
>
>
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 24 August 2010:
> > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 02:04:32PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote:
> > >=20
> > > 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?
> >=20
> > I don't think it prints to the margins, per se.
> >=20
> > I also know that it's not particular to the printer, since my
> > girlfriend's laptop (running Ubuntu) prints the same PDF just fine.
> >=20
> > I'll send the specific PDF I've been trying to print lately, off-list.
> >=20
> > --=20
> > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
>
> Well, if it makes you feel any better, it does the same thing here
> (truncates top and bottom).
>
> Looks like CUPS is addressing the page as if there were no unprintable
> areas on the page (i.e., it's scaled to fit an 8-1/2 x 11 piece of paper
> exactly) rather than squeezing it into the printable area.  I'm afraid I
> don't know enough about CUPS to say any more.

What are the chances that that those 'problem' PDFs are designed for a
slightly _different_ paper size, and CUPS is -nto- 'scaling' to fit the
actual paper size?

I don't know diddly-squat about CUPS, but this sounds an awful lot like
what happens when a printer has 'letter' paper loaded, but has been told
that it has size 'A4' paper.

Look for configuration settings in whatever is doing the Postscript/PDF
rendering, with regard to 'substiting' one paper size for another.



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