Bug#736586: cups printing ignores centering option and printing margins

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

Hello Wolf-Dieter,

Thank you for your report.

On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 13:13:04 +0100, Wolf-Dieter Groll wrote:

> Thus it doesn't seem to be a problem of the individual printer driver but a
> problem of cups or the cups dialog for printing.

This could be a problem with the filters used with the job.

We assume you are using a PPD from the printer-driver-splix package.
The PPD will be in /etc/cups/ppd. It is your.ppd.

The PDF you refer to is test.pdf. In a terminal please do

   /usr/sbin/cupsfilter -m application/vnd.cups-pdf -p /etc/cups/ppd/your.ppd test.pdf > out.pdf

You can repeat this for any other PDF, of course. It is quick and
doesn't waste paper or ink. :) You also do not need to be root.

1. compare test.pdf with out.pdf for a number of test PDFs. May I recommend
   mupdf as a lightweight PDF viewer.

2. Post the output from cupsfilter for one input PDF.

3. Comment on what you observe in 1.

Regards,

Brian.