Bug#329027: The PPD files are fine, the bug is in whatever is processing them
On Mon, 22 May 2006, gpe92@free.fr wrote:
> I've made a test with (*ImageableArea A4/A4: "9 36 586 833") instead of
> (*ImageableArea A4/A4: "9.72 36 585.28 833") and now the preview in gutenprint
> is good but the impression is bad, there is a shift to the bottom.
IF gutenprint handles the real numbers just fine (i.e. it processes them
correctly), then what you have is not necessarily a problem in gutenprint.
There is a veritable mess of crap that can change the positioning of a page
when gs (whichever one) is rendering it, and whatever device gutenprint is
using to draw the preview might have a different adjustment than the IJS
device itself.
I'd really like for Debian to actually get this right, but I have never seen
a linux distro that does.
Download this file:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/align.ps
Print it, and also /usr/share/gs<whatever ghostscript you're
using>/<whatever version of ghostscript you're using>/lib/align.ps
Printing that file, and previewing that file (using gutenprint, gv, etc)
will tell you WHAT is badly adjusted, and how.
You can try (untested) to use:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/alignmargins
as root to modify the PPD to align margins correctly, but that is unlikely
to work if alignment is different depending on the viewer/previewer you did
see when looking at the two align.ps files I mentioned above.
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