* Postscript printing on A4
@ 2006-11-11 22:47 Piet van Oostrum
2006-11-12 0:04 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
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From: Piet van Oostrum @ 2006-11-11 22:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
I am using Emacs 22.0.90 (less than a week old) on Mac OS X 10.4.8.
I had problems printing on A4 paper with Postscript Print Buffer
(ps-print-buffer-with-faces). I have ps-paper-type set to a4 and the
resulting Postscript contains:
%%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
and
%%PageMedia: A4
Nevertheless the printer requests letter size paper and when I force it to
use A4, the top op the text is chopped off.
It seems that CUPS is not honoring the %%DocumentMedia and %%PageMedia
comments. Is this normal? Or is this a macosx specific problem?
For the time being I solved it by the using lpoptions command to make A4
the default, however this would make it impossible to use other formats,
e.g. photo's I presume.
Is the same problem appearing on other systems that use CUPS?
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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
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* Re: Postscript printing on A4
2006-11-11 22:47 Postscript printing on A4 Piet van Oostrum
@ 2006-11-12 0:04 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
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From: Vinicius Jose Latorre @ 2006-11-12 0:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: emacs-devel
Hi Piet,
You could try to set `ps-lpr-switches' variable to force the printer to
use A4, if the printer supports A4.
The CUPS Software Users Manual <http://www.cups.org/doc-1.1/sum.html>
says that to set the media size, type and/or source you have to use the
option "-o media=X" where X is the media size, as in the command line:
lp -o media=Letter filename
lp -o media=A4 filename
lpr -o media=Letter filename
lpr -o media=A4 filename
So, you could try to set in your ~/.emacs (or equivalent in Mac OS X):
(setq ps-lpr-switches '("-o media=A4"))
Regards,
Vinicius
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
> I am using Emacs 22.0.90 (less than a week old) on Mac OS X 10.4.8.
>
> I had problems printing on A4 paper with Postscript Print Buffer
> (ps-print-buffer-with-faces). I have ps-paper-type set to a4 and the
> resulting Postscript contains:
>
> %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
> and
> %%PageMedia: A4
>
> Nevertheless the printer requests letter size paper and when I force it to
> use A4, the top op the text is chopped off.
>
> It seems that CUPS is not honoring the %%DocumentMedia and %%PageMedia
> comments. Is this normal? Or is this a macosx specific problem?
>
> For the time being I solved it by the using lpoptions command to make A4
> the default, however this would make it impossible to use other formats,
> e.g. photo's I presume.
>
> Is the same problem appearing on other systems that use CUPS?
>
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