Re: PDF viewer which supports scale-to-fit print (aka "lp -o fitplot")?
On 03 Jan 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:32:09 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a pdf viewer which can print with the option
> > "scale-to-fit"? Web searched didn't turn up anything useful.
>
> I don't see that option under Evince, yep.
>
> But maybe you can give Evince a chance by creating a new printer instance
> in cups (name it, "evince_fiplot_on") and enable "fitplot" option for
> that printer in "/etc/cups/printers.conf" (Option fitplot true) :-?
>
> > lp -d printer -o fitplot file.pdf
> >
> > does what I need, but a GUI is needed for clicky-type users.
>
> (...)
>
> IIRC, Xpdf can pass raw lpr parameters when printing, so maybe it could
> be another option.
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
I don't know about fitplot, but I found that xpdf would not print
landscape pages correctly; they came out as portrait. But evince does it
without problems.
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