Normen, I am using FOP to produce my PDFs and have had the same problem, but I'm 99% sure it has nothing to do with FOP. My left/right margins are specified at exactly 25mm and they appear correct in the PDF. Here are my left/right margin results from a few printer tests. I did all my printing from Acrobat Reader 5: HP Laserjet 5/5M, from Linux with gimp-print driver: 29/27mm HP 5SiMX from NT4 (driver == ???): 29/27mm Xerox DC460 from NT4 (I think): 25/25mm
As you can see some of these are off by > 10% which I find annoying. We're trying to squeeze information-rich tables onto our pages and I don't like losing 2-3% of my page width to the printer's whims. But I think if we want to solve our problem we'll need to a) figure it out ourselves or b) take it to a newsgroup like comp.periphs.printers. I think FOP is not the culprit. Good luck Philip On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:54, Normen Ruhrus wrote: > I ran under 1.4.1_01 and updated to _02. There was no change... > I think there must be some difference in drivers of the two printers, > that seem to define additionally to the XSL:FO definition of the margins > their own (default) margins. I see that this is not 100% FOP question > but perhaps someone in here has some experiences with printing to > different printers and can share Knowledge!? > > Greetings > > Normen > > > -----UrsprÃngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Clay Leeds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Montag, 10. MÃrz 2003 22:40 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: left margin different on two printouts... > > Normen Ruhrus wrote: > > Hi there, i wrote a servlet that supports pdf streaming to a browser > > > (works fine) and printing (server side) using the awtrenderer. Problem > > > here is, on one printer it looks just fine while on the other one some > > > parts are cut off... Well it looks like that its not the font metric > > problem. One of the two printers (HP V40) makes a bigger left margin > > than a Samsung laserprinter, while they are using the 100% same > source. > > Is this a printer driver problem? Is there an explanation / > workaround > > ??? Hope someone can help me out... Thanks in advance Normen > > > Ruhrus > > (Much of this message mirrors the previous answer I gave, however there > is a bit more information below.) > > In our testing at my company, we've found that the version of Java being > > used may affect the output. In particular, there was a bug in pre-1.4.x > Sun java that had FontMetrics issues. IBM 1.30 java appears to be > unaffected by this bug. As a result, we've indicated to our clients that > > our FOP implementation requires Sun Java 1.4.1+ or IBM Java 1.30+. > > If you're having problems, see if you can install one of these JAVA > upgrades (you shouldn't need to change the server to default to this new > > version to test. Just open a new terminal window, and set $JAVA_HOME to > that new version of JAVA), and then do more testing. If you find it > works, that may be the culprit. However, you'll want to test any other > applications currently running on your server to make certain nothing > "breaks" with the updated JRE before you implement the change. > > HTH! > > -- > Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - http://www.medata.com > PGP Public Key: https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
