on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:37:45AM +1000, mdevin@ozemail.com.au (mdevin@ozemail.com.au) wrote: > I am getting totally frustrated with trying to print .pdf files. > > Here is my setup: > Printer: HP1220 - Laser with post-script level 2 emulation > Print driver: CUPS (the potato version - cupsys_1.0.4-9_i386.deb) > > What happens is, I have heaps of trouble trying to stop the edges of > pages being chopped off. It seems to print OK, but the top part of the > document is missing. Yet there is a margin of some 7-8 mm at the top > with nothing. I suspect you've got an A4 formatted document you're trying to print on US-letter paper. > I have tried passing -o page-top=70 arguments to the command. I even > tried the following: > lp -d hp1220-fullpage -o page-left=70 -o page-right=70 -o page-top=70 -o > page-bottom=70 lect10-1.pdf > But it made no difference to the output. Don't think it will with postscript output. > Is there some GUI based application that will allow you to view and > print .pdf files and adjust their margins etc.? Will you settle for command line? There are a slew of postscript utilities in, of all things, psutils. Among them are tools to resize documents (mpage and psnup are others) which can be used to resize *postscript* documents. You'll want to dump pdf to postscript either through a viewer (xpdf *only* produces ps -- it doesn't print directly), or with the pdftops utility. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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