Bug#501312: marked as done (cups-client: ambiguous description of "-o scaling=NN" option)
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regarding cups-client: ambiguous description of "-o scaling=NN" option
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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <maintonly@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: cups-client: ambiguous description of "-o scaling=NN" option
- From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:06:46 -0400
- Message-id: <E1KmqjW-0003nu-UV@approx.mit.edu>
Package: cups-client
Version: 1.3.8-1lenny1
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man1/lp.1.gz
The lp(1) manpage says:
-o scaling=number
Scales image files to use up to number percent of the page.
Values greater than 100 cause the image file to be printed
across multiple pages.
The "percent of the page" slightly implies "percent of the page area."
So -o scaling=25 would, on this interpretation, scale an image to half
the height and half the width of the page.
I tried a couple experiments here by printing two jpegs on a HP PSC
2710. It seems that the 25 is really a percent of either the page
height or the width, so the image took up about 1/16th of the page.
Should the description read something like : "use up to number percent
of the page height or of the page width [whichever limit sets the more
stringent criterion]."
-Sanjoy
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages cups-client depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cups-common 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libc6 2.7-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcups2 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
cups-client recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cups-client suggests:
ii cups 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii cups-bsd 1.3.8-1lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
pn cups-pt <none> (no description available)
pn gtklp <none> (no description available)
pn kdeprint <none> (no description available)
pn xpp <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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- To: 501312-done@bugs.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#501312: cups-client: ambiguous description of "-o scaling=NN" option
- From: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:26:25 +0100
- Message-id: <20081116192625.GA19015@piware.de>
- In-reply-to: <E1KmqjW-0003nu-UV@approx.mit.edu>
- References: <E1KmqjW-0003nu-UV@approx.mit.edu>
Hi Sanjoy,
Sanjoy Mahajan [2008-10-06 10:06 -0400]:
> Should the description read something like : "use up to number percent
> of the page height or of the page width [whichever limit sets the more
> stringent criterion]."
I passed this on to upstream, who rejected it:
"The scaling is a dimensional percentage, and always has been. This wording
was actually changed from previous documentation which was more specific but
apparently also more confusing for the average user.
Given that we've already changed the documentation to its current state based
on feedback from other users, and changing it back will just bring back the
old confusion, I'm inclined to leave the documentation as-is."
Thanks for your report!
Martin
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