On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 11:02:52AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:17:25AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 09:37:45AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL > > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I am getting totally frustrated with trying to print .pdf files. > > > > > > Here is my setup: > > > Printer: HP1220 - Laser with post-script level 2 emulation > > > Print driver: CUPS (the potato version - cupsys_1.0.4-9_i386.deb) > > > > > > What happens is, I have heaps of trouble trying to stop the edges of > > > pages being chopped off. It seems to print OK, but the top part of the > > > document is missing. Yet there is a margin of some 7-8 mm at the top > > > with nothing. > > > > I suspect you've got an A4 formatted document you're trying to print on > > US-letter paper. > > > Yeah, I think you are on the right track there. This bloody subject I > am doing at Uni puts the lecture notes on the web and they all seem to > be formatted as US-Letter. But my printer will only do A4. It wouldn't > print at all when I tried to send these files directly to the printer. > What I did then was with gv, saved every page of the document after > changing the view to A4. It created some 7mb file! but then when I > loaded that file the view in gv said it was bbox (rather than letter) > now. Hmmmm. I didn't really understand that, but if I sent that file > to the printer then it would print but it cut off part of the file as I > was saying above. > > > > I have tried passing -o page-top=70 arguments to the command. I > > > even tried the following: lp -d hp1220-fullpage -o page-left=70 -o > > > page-right=70 -o page-top=70 -o page-bottom=70 lect10-1.pdf But it > > > made no difference to the output. > > > > Don't think it will with postscript output. > > > > > Is there some GUI based application that will allow you to view and > > > print .pdf files and adjust their margins etc.? > > > > Will you settle for command line? > > > > There are a slew of postscript utilities in, of all things, psutils. > > Among them are tools to resize documents (mpage and psnup are others) > > which can be used to resize *postscript* documents. > > I will take a look at these and give them a go. > > > > You'll want to dump pdf to postscript either through a viewer (xpdf > > *only* produces ps -- it doesn't print directly), or with the pdftops > > utility. > > So what you are saying is that there really isn't anything that I can > use to play directly with the .pdf files. I must first convert them to > .ps and then resize them etc. > OK, I tried doing the above. However, when I did: pdftops lect10.pdf The resultant file when viewed with gv doesn't have all the text anymore. I suspect it may use a truetype font or something non standard for the fonts. So if I resize the pages for this and then print it, there is no text, only some diagrams come out on otherwise blank pages.
Btw, if I view the original lect10.pdf with xpdf, the text is missing also. I can however read the whole document properly with gv. But I can't seem to print to a file from gv. This is a real mongrel. Mark.
