Re: gEDA-user: printing, postscript and page size (under cygwin)

[Hans Nieuwenhuis <vzzbx@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:46:39 +0200
"Duncan Drennan" <duncan.drennan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm experiencing the following, and not too sure where the problem
> lies. I'm running gschem under cygwin (stable 20070626).
> 
> If I print and use the lpr command which is sending to the default
> printer, which in this case is PDF creator (this generates some error
> messages in PDF Creator along the way, but that is possibly another
> story). It seems to always scale the actual output page size to a
> Letter size. The schematic drawing looks scaled correctly (e.g. A4),
> but the page size of the PDF (File -> Properties) is always a Letter
> size.
> 
> If I follow the route of print to a file (.ps) and then convert to a
> PDF the scaling is correct, but the document is not searchable, which
> is really a requirement for me.
> 
> I thought that there might be some setting that the lpr command is
> always outputting to a Letter page (in cygwin that is, not gschem).
> Any thoughts?

Maybe your default printer settings are using Letter as a default paper
size? Check <start> -> Settings -> Printers -> <your_pdf_printer> and
then wrestle through all the tabs in the settings pane searching for
default paper size. I recall having had a problem like that in the past.


HTH,

Hans

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