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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Page sizes not consistent with ghostscript
From:       Mr E_T <troll () logi ! net ! au>
Date:       2003-02-23 13:19:38
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On Sat, 22 Feb 2003, Nicolas Goutte wrote:

This is not entirely usefule as I have found that if you use the wrong paper
size in kdeprint using cups ghostscript and hpijs then the print gets resized
some.

annoying.

Also Some users such as my wife find the Custom page size to be confusing and
annoying.

I was actually wondering if more paper sizes could be added into kword using a
mimetype sort of interface. Maybe even using the Custom page size interface.
For convenience of the user.

I dont know - it was just a thought.

I also use these templates for convenience - you may want to include them in the
distribution.

> Ghostscript has little to do with a document paper size.
>
> Ghostscript only emulates a Postscript printer but it does not help to write
> the Postscript file. So the application writing the Postscript file needs to
> handle paper sizes itself. (Currently we use QT for all the Postscript
> generation.)
>
> KOffice's paper sizes are those of QT's class QPrinter (QPrinter::PageSize to
> be exact.) All other sizes are supposed to be made with the "Custom" size.
>
> However your idea to have the smaller ISO C envelope sizes at hand is
> interesting. Please add a bug report for a wish at KDE Bugs:
> http://bugs.kde.org
>
> Have a nice day/evening/night!
>
> On Saturday 22 February 2003 14:38, Mr E_T wrote:
> > I have found that the koffice papersizes do not match the ghostscript paper
> > sizes and it is causing a little bit of difficulty.
> >
> > My wife is not a guru and would like to just choose a paper size such as c6
> > (which is actually an envelope size) - but gets confused that there is not
> > much option.
> >
> > Especialy when ghostscript does have those sizes..
> >
> > I would have thought that most linux print programs use ghostscript and
> > therefore would use the same papersizes as default.
> >
> > If this is not feasable then the option of creating your own paper size and
> > including it into the format->page->size menu.+
>
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