on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:55:45PM +1000, mdevin@ozemail.com.au (mdevin@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:02:52AM +1000, mdevin@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:17:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > > 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.
<...>
> > > 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.
> >
> > So what you are saying is that there really isn't anything that I
> > can use to play directly with the .pdf files. I must first convert
> > them to .ps and then resize them etc.
Not that I'm aware of, but this isn't my area of expertise. Google or a
document-related list might be a more useful option.
> OK, I tried doing the above. However, when I did:
>
> pdftops lect10.pdf
>
> The resultant file when viewed with gv doesn't have all the text
> anymore.
Try printing to file from a PDF viewer instead. You'll get postscript.
It may not be pretty.
Steps:
- Print to file with, e.g.: acroread[1] or xpdf
- Resize: psresize -pletter myfile.ps myfile-l.ps
- Check results with gv.
> Btw, if I view the original lect10.pdf with xpdf, the text is missing
> also. I can however read the whole document properly with gv. But I
> can't seem to print to a file from gv.
Replace the print command (e.g.: lpr) with something that will dump to
a file, e.g.:
cat > /tmp/foo.ps
...should work.
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