For each printer there is a "Postscript Printer Description" (PPD) file in /etc/cups/ppd. If you know what you're doing and make all the right changes in all the right places, you can add a custom paper size for your printer. Having a computer science degree I was able to do this, and I have effectively "brute-forced" my printer into supporting my custom paper size under Linux. Your typical computer user who wants their machine to "just plain work" (I believe this is Ubuntu's target market) would not be able to do this, as most non-engineers NEVER want to see either a text configuration file nor a command line. As I said, I had to "actually use" my computer science degree, do a lot of homework, and spend an hour or so of tweaking to get it to work.
I think it would be in Ubuntu's best interest to provide a tool in the System -> Administration menu that allows for easy manipulation of these files, which would allow users to enter a custom paper size (or do anything else that PPD files support). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description --BH On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 09:38 +0000, Till Kamppeter wrote: > What do you mean with "To do it "right" requires editing a text file, > but it can be done."? > -- Epson Stylus Photo R800: Can not print to a custom paper size of 4.25"x5.5" (1/4 of a US Legal) https://launchpad.net/bugs/42190 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
