Hi, I do a lot of correction to the Postscript output last autumn, it must work much better if you install the last snapshot.
Patrick Le lundi 29 décembre 2008 18.33:07 rutherman9, vous avez écrit : > I've been a highly satisfied Cartes du Ciel user for some years with > Win XP and am now using it with Linux Ubuntu 8.04. I'm using the v 3 > beta 0.1.4 version. On screen the software seems to work well; > however, when I come to print charts I am having problems. Whole sky > views print OK when set to portrait orientation but landscape > orientations of smaller fields of view do not print properly. The > chart is still printed in the portrait orientation but is truncated, > owing to the smaller width of the paper in this mode, and the alt-az > grid lines and constellation lines are additionally printed outside > the chart border. The printer is an HP Officejet 6310, set up as a > ethernet-connected local printer using CUPS. Other applications print OK. > > A satisfactory work around, in case anyone else is experiencing > similar problems, is to print to bitmap. The resulting bitmap file > then opens in the default image application - in my case 'gimp' - with > which it can be printed. I am also able to configure the bitmap > printing option to a higher resolution (e.g. 300 dpi) than the 72 dpi > I am given for the printer, which improves chart appearance considerably. > > Chris
