Re: Text on printed pages truncated
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- Subject: Re: Text on printed pages truncated
- From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:32:42 -0800
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Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> Douglas Tutty <dtutty <at> porchlight.ca> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
>> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part:
>> >
>> > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text
>> > >behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat
>> > >different, but may be related. So that's three apps printing html with
>> > >truncated text and at least two of them (epiphany and gnucash) use
>> > >libgnomeprint. and iceweasel is using gtk and maybe they've got gnome
>> > >printing statically linked in? or use gnome printing to build their
>> > >print enging? (thus not showing the dependency).
>> > >
>> > >anyway, that's all I've got.
>> >
>> > Nevertheless, it is far better than nothing. I need to review
>> > carefully which of the applications I use cause the truncation and which
>> > do not. So far, I have discovered that anything printed through Dosemu
>> > is okay. Pdf files printed from the Acrobat reader are okay, but not
>> > those printed from other pdf readers including Kpdf and Xpdf.
>>
>> What happens if you print to a ps file from all the aps then read the ps
>> with gv? That should show you if the problem is in the converstion to
>> ps or in the conversion of ps to the printer's format.
>
> Hey folks, has anyone made any progress on this?
>
> The odd thing is, I wasn't seeing this problem in lenny (which was an
> upgrade from etch which was an upgrade from sarge which may also have
> been an upgrade from woody). However, after my disk went south and I
> installed a fresh copy of lenny this weekend, I now see the problem.
>
> FYI, if I print to PDF from Gnucash and view the PDF from evince, the
> top of the report is cut off, so the problem lies in the app to PDF
> conversion.
OK, weird. Now it's working.
The only related things I've done since before is add my printer to
CUPS and reboot.
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