printing from gvim

[Michael Hennebry]

On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, Richard England wrote:

> Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> 
>> When printing a two-page file from gvim,
>> it gives me a 3/4 inch margin at the top
>> (I measured) and overflow at the bottom.
>> A line is missing between the pages.
>> How do I fix this?
>> When I print a CUPS test page, the margins are in the range 0.1 to 0.2 
>> inch.
>> vim's default printer options are 5% for the top and bottom margins.
>> That shouldn't be a problem.  Something seems to be shifting things down.
>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> [root at localhost a2ps]# uname -a
>> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.27.12-78.2.8.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Mon Jan 19 
>> 20:14:35 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>> 
> You might want to take a look at:
>
>  http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/print.html
>
> or specifically at:
>
>  http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/print.html#popt-option

I did.
Michael Hennebry wrote:
> vim's default printer options are 5% for the top and bottom margins.

> looking at the margin settings that can be controlled via the popt-opt 
> settings  in your .vimrc or .gvimrc file.

The first time I looked I missed the A4 vs. letter stuff.

gvim's printing is better now.
set popt=paper:letter

> I believe that vim will created a postscript file when used on a Linux 
> system....

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