Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-11-15 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Douglas Tutty porchlight.ca> writes: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >>> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: >>> > >>> > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same t

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-11-12 Thread Bill Wohler
Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Douglas Tutty porchlight.ca> writes: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: >> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: >> > >> > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text >> > >behavior as iceweasel. the tru

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-11-12 Thread Bill Wohler
Douglas Tutty porchlight.ca> writes: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > > > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text > > >behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat > > >different,

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:44:16PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > >I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text > >behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat > >different, but may be related. So that's three apps printing h

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: I just pulled in epiphany and it gives the same truncated text behavior as iceweasel. the truncation with gnucash is somewhat different, but may be related. So that's three apps printing html with truncated text and at least two of them (epiphany and gnucash

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 08:55:15AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:03:22AM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > > > >Well, hnmmm, here's a thought. I see this problem only when printing > > >from iceweasel and gnucash and guess what

Re: Printing from WP8 (was Re: Text on printed pages truncated)

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
Patrick, You will no doubt recall our e-mail exchange on the Debian user list in November 2005, where you first drew my attention to your page about WP8 and Debian. Four sources enabled me to get WP8 up and running: your page, Rick Moen's "WordPerfect on Linux FAQ" (http://linuxmafia.com/wp

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:03:22AM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > >Well, hnmmm, here's a thought. I see this problem only when printing > >from iceweasel and gnucash and guess what... they both are printing > >html pages (gnucash report generator produces html)

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-10 Thread Ken Heard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: Well, hnmmm, here's a thought. I see this problem only when printing from iceweasel and gnucash and guess what... they both are printing html pages (gnucash report generator produces html). I wonder if that's the common thread. Have you tried printing from o

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:06:25PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: > > >I'm sure it can largely be solved by copious reading and hacking ... > > That's what I have been doing, to no avail. Fortunately, for most > of my writing I am still using -- bel

Printing from WP8 (was Re: Text on printed pages truncated)

2007-01-09 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 1/9/07, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fortunately, for most of my writing I am still using -- believe it or not -- WordPerfect 5.1 on Dosemu. It prints beautifully. In my estimation the best word processor ever. However, when I need to I convert 5.1 files to 8.0 for Linux, where I c

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
Andrew Sackville-West wrote, in part: I'm sure it can largely be solved by copious reading and hacking ... That's what I have been doing, to no avail. Fortunately, for most of my writing I am still using -- believe it or not -- WordPerfect 5.1 on Dosemu. It prints beautifully. In my esti

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:00:35PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: > Since I wrote my first post I now think that the problem Rick and I > encountered is a long standing CUPS bug. I was able to find on an > archived thread one post which said so. This thread was hard to find, > as the thread name is unrel

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
Since I wrote my first post I now think that the problem Rick and I encountered is a long standing CUPS bug. I was able to find on an archived thread one post which said so. This thread was hard to find, as the thread name is unrelated to our particular problem. The name is "Not able to print pa

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Rick Reynolds
Ken Heard wrote: Whenever I print text, html or pdf files from either Konqueror or Firefox, the text starts so close to the top of each page that the first line either does not get printed, or only part of it is printed. Is there a way to adjust the printing to have the text start say 8-10 mm