Re: off topic Question of the day..
On Sunday 10 July 2016 04:43:13 Curt wrote:
> On 2016-07-09, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> >> Is Tabloid
> >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_size#North_American_paper_size
> >>s ) in the list?
> >
> > I believe it is. Checking, yes. If that is the correct size, and its
> > truly borderless when selected as "tabloid(borderless)", if the
> > paper guidance can be improved, that would be ideal as when I
> > trimmed it up and put it on a big sheet of light plywood this
> > morning, I was trimming about 1/2" from all 4 edges on average. And
> > it was set for "A3(borderless)" at the time. What size in our
> > antiquated inch system is A3?
>
> I'm reading 11x17 can be tabloid (US B/ANSI B) *or* ledger (ANSI B).
>
> http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/office-paper-sizes-d_213.html
>
> Tabloid and ledger are both of identical dimensions, but one is a
> horizontal orientation, and the other a vertical one.
That sounds like I'd get landscape without specifying it if I chose
ledger. Does anyone know if thats the case with our wheezy/tde printing
filter? Ledger isn't one of the choices, and tabloid spits out blank
paper. And according to cups, evince is only send it a 1k sized job.
It looks great on the evince screen! So I tried to regenerate it from
the original .svg file. But this time, inkscape refused to export
anything but a .png, so I had to use Poserazer to generate a 6 page
using 15something by 9something images in .pdf format, looking identical
to the first file on the evince screen.
Restarted evince 3 or 4 times. Print first page, get blank paper and cups
says the job was 1 kilobyte, when it worked yesterday, each page was
about 4.5 megabytes down the pipeline to the printer.
I am totally bumfuzzled, htop says I am about 40 megs into swap, so maybe
I should send this and reboot.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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