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Re: Text on printed pages truncated



Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> 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.

Here is some more info:

Jim Paris <jim@jtan.com> wrote:

> Maybe it was a paper size issue, and installing a printer changed your
> default papersize?  You can change the current setting with
> "dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1".  I noticed in your system information:
>  
> > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
> 
> If LC_ALL was set to C during installation, I think libpaper1 would
> have defaulted to A4 (because "locale width" and "locale height"
> return A4 size in that case) 

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