Re: Help: 3.0 to 3.1r1 upgrade, printing broken (wrong paper size?)
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:07:18 +0000, twinchell@asheville.com wrote:
> I just upgraded to 3.1r1 from 3.0 and printing is broken. It looks like the wrong paper
> size is selected because printouts (and PS images made from ghostscript) run up over the
> top margin.According to /etc/papersize, I'm still using letter.
> I'm not using CUPS, although Xprint was installed in the upgrade. I've fooled with the
> files in /etc/Xprint to no avail.
> I have a LaserJet 4M+ attached directly via parallel port and printing has always been a
> matter of sending a PS file to lpr. Now when I do that in Mozilla, the margins are way off
> and the image bleeds off the top of the page.
> Even converting files has this problem. I tried converting a PPM to PS with "convert" and
> the resultant image has "BBox" as paper size in gv, not letter. When I select "letter" I
> get the same bleed off the top of the page in the image.
> When I use gs to combine several of these ps images (so that I can convert the big ps
> image into PDF), the new image goes up off the top margin, too.
> I hope this is just a simple FAQ but in hours of searching I've found nothing. Please
> help!
Maybe there is an environmental variable that messes with your paper
settings. Check
env | grep -i paper
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Regards,
Florian
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