Re: Text on printed pages truncated
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part:
>
> >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text
> >behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat
> >different, but may be related. So that's three apps printing html with
> >truncated text and at least two of them (epiphany and gnucash) use
> >libgnomeprint. and iceweasel is using gtk and maybe they've got gnome
> >printing statically linked in? or use gnome printing to build their
> >print enging? (thus not showing the dependency).
> >
> >anyway, that's all I've got.
>
> Nevertheless, it is far better than nothing. I need to review
> carefully which of the applications I use cause the truncation and which
> do not. So far, I have discovered that anything printed through Dosemu
> is okay. Pdf files printed from the Acrobat reader are okay, but not
> those printed from other pdf readers including Kpdf and Xpdf.
>
What happens if you print to a ps file from all the aps then read the ps
with gv? That should show you if the problem is in the converstion to
ps or in the conversion of ps to the printer's format.
Doug.
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