On Friday 17 November 2000 01:59, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Thursday 16 November 2000 06:27, Ron Stodden wrote:
> > > However, none of these, or Acrobat itself, will print with CUPS.
> >
> > Ron,
> > I have CUPS and acroread - prints just fine to my HP DeskJet 720C.
>
> If you are in the USA, that is true. Default print setup is Letter,
> 8.5 x 11 inches.
>
> However, if you change the Paper from Letter to A4 (say), it still
> leaves the page size at 8.5 x 11 inches, with the result that it
> won't print. Manually change the page size to 8.27 x 11.69 inches
> and you are in business again.
>
> Since Acrobat is proprietary software, Mandrake cannot patch it (no
> source) and make a mdk RPM. Only Adobe can correct this original
> coding error, and until they do, they cannot expect any use of their
> Linux Acrobat Reader 4 to print out documents outside the USA.
You're quite right, Ron - I hadn't tried to change the page size - but then
you don't have to. At the bottom of the Print dialog, in PostScript Options,
select "Fit to Page" and it'll do just that - if your printer is A4 as mine
is too, it prints A4 perfectly. That's how acroread works - it doesn't let
you alter the original in any way, while you can view and print as you like.
Cheers,
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