Re: Printing from firefox (xprt)
On 03 Jun 2004, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 02 Jun 2004, Paul Stolp wrote:
> > * Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.org.uk> [2004-06-02 12:44]:
> > >
> > >
> > > Since a recent upgrade of firefox (Sid) I find that printing from
> > > Firefox still works but it is now very small. Previously it used to fill
> > > up an A4 page,but now it prints a very small area in one corner.
> > > Fiddling with the settings via Preview doesn't affect what happens.
> > >
> > > Anyone seen this effect?
> > >
> > > Anthony
> >
> > I'm not sure if this might be it or not, but when I first installed
> > xprt, I got a 1/4 page printout. Something to do with DPI. Check the
> > xprt-xprintorg faq in /usr/share/doc for details.
> >
> > Paul
> > --
> >
>
> Thanks for this useful pointer. Increasing the DPI has doubled the size
> of the printout and centred it, which is certainly an improvement,
> though it's still a lot smaller than it used to be.
>
> Anthony
>
A bit later: following today's update from Sid, Firefox is now printing
correctly again. Moral: a bit of patience required when following
Unstable, I suppose.
Anthony
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