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Re: Stretched printing from Firefox/Mozilla



On Monday 01 August 2005 14:45, Jason Martens wrote:
>Jim Seymour wrote:
>> I am running etch with a 2.6 kernel and cups for printing. As long
>> as I can remember it will not print a web page correctly. All
>> other printing from other programs comes out the correct size.
>> However whenever I try to print a web page from Mozilla or Firefox
>> it comes out stretched long-ways and I end up losing part of each
>> page. This includes text and graphics. Ideas? Letter is set up to
>> be my default paper size.
>
>Hmmm, I am also running etch and I have no problems printing from
>firefox using cups.  I remember this happening a long time ago, but
> I can't remember why.  What version of cups/firefox are you
> running?  What printer are you printing to?  What is the ppd that
> you are using for that printer?  Is it the postscript driver?
>
>Jason

ISTR I had a similar problem while running a hires screen without 
setting the proper dpi someplace.  Problem was solved once I told it 
my screen was 150dpi instead of the default 75 or so.

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