Ok, so I realized that this worked ok for Windows 7 - XP apparently isn't using the PPD (exactly anyway) but Win7 is, so that's good enough for me. The problem has become that while the edits make it work for the OS, Excel is saying it knows when something is landscape or not and cuts off the page...
So my next question is, can I just rename something in the PPD to Ledger? Maybe that will make it all work... -- James Pulver LEPP Computer Group Cornell University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James M Pulver Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:15 AM To: Mark Stodola; [email protected] Subject: RE: CUPS doesn't offer Ledger as a paper size So now I think I've managed to get the PPD edited so Tabloid prints from Linux CUPS clients. However, the PPD update doesn't seem to get copied to the Windows side via cupsaddsmbd ... the Windows users still don't get a Tabloid (or really many of the PPD page size options) in their GUI. I can work around it via selecting A3 as a paper size, that is "close enough", but does have a larger boarder than the actual Tabloid setting... Any ideas? -- James Pulver LEPP Computer Group Cornell University -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Stodola Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CUPS doesn't offer Ledger as a paper size James M Pulver wrote: > We've got a Brother MFC-j5910 which is working great networked via the > brother LPD and CUPS driver, except if you want to print 11x17 / Tabloid. The > printer for some reason doesn't support that, and instead supports the less > common 17x11 / Ledger format. If I use a program that allows you to set a > CUSTOM paper size of 17x11, it prints as expected (well, not really, I have > to still change to landscape when it should be portrait for that size > configuration)... The issue I have is, on Windows computers using the > standard CUPS drivers shared over SAMBA, I can't select a custom paper size > (and most users on Linux expect to use Tabloid, not a custom paper size)... > > Any ideas what I should do here? CUPS is on a SL5 server. > > -- > James Pulver > LEPP Computer Group > Cornell University > You should be able to modify the ppd file in /etc/cups/ppd/. You can add/modify paper dimensions as needed there. I'd start by cloning the Ledger entry, naming it Tabloid (or whatever), then adjusting the dimensions to the orientation you want. Restart cups after editing. -Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
