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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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KDE printing issue [SOLVED]

I recently upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 on Arch 64 and I'm having a strange problem with printing. I'll do my best to explain this with an example of something that I do all the time and use to always work:

I can make a standard document (letter size) with default margins on OpenOffice and export it to PDF. PDF viewers, including KPDF, see the document as created with the margins where they're supposed to be. But when I print, the page seems to "stretch out"; that is, it will print text all the way to the bottom of the page and still have more left over (that gets truncated). All print previews work just fine. This is actually the behavior of all the applications I've tested in KDE. 

There is one weirdness that is definitely worth mentioning: At least parts of KDE seems to be stuck in Metric measurements even if I change the settings to Imperial. An example of that is KWord. KWord is using Metric measurements. I can change the setting and it won't take. The configuration file even says that it's in inches, but KWord insists on Metric.

Anyone have any ideas?

argo

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Registered: 2006-11-14

Posts: 8

Re: KDE printing issue [SOLVED]

Have the same problem, too. Maybe not exactly... The way I see it: in Acrobat Reader when printing page it will leave big margin at the top of the page, so it looks like page was moved down the paper sheet. And 'print preview' is OK, too. BTW, I'm using A4 not letter.

For me this happened after some AcroRead upgrade a long time ago (not sure but it was somewhere at v7.0 or so, and it might be that it happened after KDE print dialog in AcroRead was replaced by AcroRead's one).

So, does anybody know how to make AcroRead to use print dialog from KDE? I suspect it could solve the problem. Or any other ideas?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: KDE printing issue [SOLVED]

Found the stupid f**cking annoyance ($10 worth of ink later)! And it's a first in the years that I've used KDE. Apparently there is more than one place that you can independently set global settings for your printer now. I was going through the regular Control Center-->Peripherals-->Printers routine, and nothing seemed to work. Finally after fumbling around the Web, configuration files, and menu items I found a new path through Settings-->Printers-->Instances-->Settings-->Margins off of the main menu. By selecting 'Use Custom Margins' and setting all margins to 0.00, the old behavior has returned.

That sucked!

argo

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Registered: 2006-11-14

Posts: 8

Re: KDE printing issue [SOLVED]

It helped, thanks!

T-Dawg

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Registered: 2005-01-29

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Re: KDE printing issue [SOLVED]

Just curious guys, why not use the cups interface for printer modifications? Is it a matter of preference or will it not work with kde?

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: KDE printing issue [SOLVED]

Just curious guys, why not use the cups interface for printer modifications? Is it a matter of preference or will it not work with kde?

KDE's settings build on the CUPS settings. So I do use the admin tool for CUPS, then (now at least) I have to make adjustments in KDE. Dumb, isn't it?