CUPS and A4

Tim Waugh twaugh at redhat.com
Sat Nov 8 12:56:58 UTC 2003


On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 03:41:23AM +0000, Alex Dennis wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I think the printer configuration programme isn't linking to CUPS
> properly. In printconf-gui the paper size was set automatically to A4
> (which is correct for my locale) but pages were printing with the image
> about an inch too high (the top of the page missing and the bottom too
> far up). The problem didn't arise in OpenOffice but did with Mozilla,
> Emacs and lpr on the command line.

The CUPS A4 size is for text (which gets converted to PostScript).
Other applications, such as Mozilla, which produce PostScript directly
need to be told the paper size separately.

Tim.
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