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List:       kde-print
Subject:    Re: Page Size of HP Deskjet
From:       Hans Ulrich Vetterli <huvetterli () bluewin ! ch>
Date:       2002-08-18 14:06:13
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On Friday 16 August 2002 14:12, Michael Goffioul wrote:
> Hans Ulrich Vetterli wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > since I installed SuSE 8.0 and KDE 3.02 the page size is incorrect, bevor
> > I was using KDE 2.2 and everything worked correctly.
> > I have a HP deskjet 880c and i'm using CUPS. It seems that the page (A4)
> > generated by kdeprint is about one line to large in hight. I have played
> > with several things (editing ppd files - ImageableArea --> shifts only
> > the print image on the page, lpoptions scaling, etc), nothing worked.
> > When I print into a file and send this trough pstops ("1:0@.95(0cm,1cm)")
> > and after then to the printer, the output will be correct.
> >
> > Is there a way to adjust the A4 page size in KDE?
>
> Not in the 3.0.x branch. The upcoming KDE-3.1/Qt-3.1 pair will have
> support for user-defined margin, for many applications (konqueror, kmail,
> kwrite,...). However this will require also Qt-3.1.
> I don't know exactly why you get that problem, but it might be related
> to some incompatibilities with the PS code generated by Qt and the printer
> driver (ghostscript, I guess). Anyway, playing with the imageablearea of
> the PPD file should help you, but you must be aware that all coordinates
> refer to the bottom-left corner, and not the top-left one as it is usual
> in GUI. So, each ImageableArea is given by the coordinates of the
> bottom-left and top-right corners.
>
> When you print to a file and view it, can you "see" that problem of
> too high print content?
>
> Bye.
> Michael.

hi,

After playing some more around with the ImageableArea of the PPD file with no 
expected effect, I made a workaround by creating a pseudo printer, which puts 
the print output of a KDE application through pstops and after sends it to 
the printer.This shows now the expected results.

Is there a documentation about all the parameters (like %in, %out) of 
kprinter?

Thank you very much for your help!

Regards,
HansUlrich

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