From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Footers cut off in ps file Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:09:22 +0000 Message-ID: <871tla4d31.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87fv9rzem6.fsf@gmail.com> <20150227081713.4bfabbc7@zothique.localdomain> <87k2z39tgi.fsf@gmail.com> <20150227124430.4fbfcba6@zothique.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425114457 14282 80.91.229.3 (28 Feb 2015 09:07:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:07:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 28 10:07:29 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YRdMt-0005iH-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:07:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40422 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YRdMt-0004Wd-3B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 04:07:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41226) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YRdM8-0003eR-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 04:06:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YRdM4-0004Hz-0f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 04:06:39 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YRdM3-0004Hq-QH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 04:06:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YRdM2-0005LY-Ld for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:06:34 +0100 Original-Received: from rm-19-52-32.service.infuturo.it ([151.19.52.32]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:06:34 +0100 Original-Received: from rodolfo.medina by rm-19-52-32.service.infuturo.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:06:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 82 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: rm-19-52-32.service.infuturo.it User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RCySGiXWvfNuBwqGpY6u1hEyDRY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:102943 Archived-At: Dale Snell writes: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:04:29 +0000, in message 87k2z39tgi.fsf@gmail.com, > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Dale Snell writes: >> >> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:08:17 +0000, in message >> > 87fv9rzem6.fsf@gmail.com, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> > >> >> Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do >> >> something within Emacs to work it out? I'm attaching a test ps >> >> file, in which the page number is half cut off. >> >> >> >> Help appreciated. >> >> >> >> Rodolfo >> >> >> > >> > Hi Rodolfo, >> > >> > I viewed your test file here with gv and qpdfview, and the page >> > number showed up just fine. >> >> Yes, in fact it shows up fine also in my old Debian box. Then what >> might the problem be? Possibily a bug in latest gv Debian version? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Rodolfo > > Possibly, possibly, though I'd be more likely to suspect something > in your configuration, rather than a bug in qv. FWIW, I'm using > gv v3.7.4. My version is the same. > Have you tried any other PS/PDF viewers? If they work, then it's > quite possible there's a bug in your version of qv. So far I've > tried gv, qpdfview, zathura, Emacs (v24.4.1) doc-view mode, and > Claws-Mail's PS/PDF viewer plug-in. I have Emacs 25.0.50.1, and the problem persists also in its doc-view. > The only ones that don't show > the entire document are the Claws-Mail viewer and, oddly enough, > Emacs' doc-view mode. In both cases, the page number shows up, > but the word "test" at the top of the page is missing. I've no > idea what's causing this. Possibly because I'm running in a US > LETTER environment? I don't know. > > Given that your old Debian box works while your new one doesn't, > I'd go through the two of them with a fine-toothed comb. Find out > where things are different. The answer to your troubles should be > there somewhere. Same the file, different the show. > Out of curiosity, what does the papersize(5) command show for your > system? It's possible that your system is defaulting to LETTER > instead of A4, though that seems quite unlikely. I ask because I > had trouble printing from a SuSE system. It turned out that the > system default was A4, which I hadn't expected. I set the default > to LETTER, and all was well. I don't have that command: `papersize' on my system. > I don't know how much more help I can be, I'm afraid. I don't > know much about PostScript, or how Emacs handles it, so I'm really > shooting in the dark. To complicate matters further, I'm running > Fedora, rather than Debian. They're just different enough to > cause confusion. To quote Dr. Seaton, "Ideas are avoiding me in > droves." > > --Dale Thanks! Rodolfo