Can't print Legal size paper OO-3

[Bill Davidsen]

Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 18:24 -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Craig White wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 18:30 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:37:00 -0500
>>>> Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What is Wrong ??
>>>> My theory is that OO printing is simply hosed. I've defined
>>>> a custom page size, and it has apparently ignored it. I looked
>>>> on the OO forums and saw lots of complaints there as well
>>>> about things like custom envelope printing not working.
>>> ----
>>> I'm not certain that your negative spin is all that helpful here.
>>>
>> The feature doesn't work, I'm unsure what positive spin you can put on that. And 
>> I've seen a note that it doesn't work on A4 (or whater the "nearly letter size" 
>> format is).
>>
>>> Does programs other than OOo print on Letter or Legal size?
>>>
>> Are you asking if there exist other programs which generate letter/legal output, 
>> or if output for those other programs works.
>>
>> I might suggest print to file and see if gv or similar Postscript viewers like 
>> the legal format output.
>>
>> NOTE: you do have to have the printer set for the correct paper size in CUPS, 
>> unless that's been improved. But sending "raw" Postscript to a PS printer with 
>> appropriate paper should work. I don't have my big workgroup HP set up at the 
>> moment, or I would try legal and 11x17 (which is why I bought an expensive printer).
> ----
> I'm quite sure that the Epson Stylus Photo RX595 is not a postscript
> printer and it would be helpful if you followed the thread a little
> closer.
> 
It doesn't matter. Pay attention:
  - if he writes the output to a file (ps or pdf) and checks it with a viewer, 
he can tell if it is generating the correct paper size. So he can evaluate one 
possible cause of the problem.
  - if he can print using other programs (like gimp) he can eliminate the 
conversion from ps to graphics as the source of the problem, since that would 
break all programs.
  - I think the default cups does PS to graphics itself, even for a PS printer. 
My HP is PS, but it appears to be getting HPGL to print things. If I print using 
CUPS I get a different Time-Roman font than if I dd PS to the device directly.

> I was asking the OP to check if other programs offered letter & legal
> sizes when choosing to print to isolate whether this was an OOo issue. I
> thought that was fairly clear.
> 
It was clear why you were asking, but not if you were asking if he had other 
programs or if they worked.

> I surely don't know whether the Epson Stylus Photo RX595 actually offers
> to print a legal size sheet since it is a photo printer, it seems
> conceivable that it is not an offered print size - I simply don't know.
> 
I'm not sure on that model, many of the Epson printer have a feed which allows 
use of legal size paper, and will print long stuff just fine. I have a CX7400 
which I believe is the one I used for legal the last time I needed it.

> Craig
> 


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