From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: I'm trying to set the printable area/margins for my printer, which is a Samsung ML-4500 though I think the same applies for any printer. There is clearly a facility to tweak some imageable area and margins values in the "Queue Options" part of system-config-printer but I can't find any documentation or hints as to which values to tweak, how to tweak them, what the difference is between the "imageable area" options and the "margins" options etc. I the past I have successfully used the alignmargins/align.ps scripts from linuxprinting.org to tweak the PPD file to match my printer. However, given that system-config-printer clearly intends to provide the same sort of functionality, I would really like to do it "the approved way", which might then create settings that would persist across upgrades etc. I would really appreciate it if a quick "margins howto" file was added to the documentation section and/or help section of system-config-printer. I've tried changing some values and looking for the differences in the output to try to decide what's what but I can't make sense of it at the moment and I'll be wasting a lot of paper. In the meantime I'm going to work around it by using the old alignmargins method and manually assigning the modified PPD file to the queue with lpadmin. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Edit a printer queue. 2. Select "queue options" 3. Boggle. Actual Results: Top and left few pixels missing from printout. Expected Results: Should have found guidance on setting margins. Additional info:
Fedora Core 2 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC3 updates or in the FC4 test release, reopen and change the version to match.
Still no sign of any documentation on setting margins in the FC3 version of the package, so bumping version to FC3.
I'm still having the same problem in rawhide. Please bump the version up to devel.
Given that system-config-printer has been rewritten for FC6 and doesn't have specific margin setting options, I think this can be closed. Hans, do you agree?
Agreed
OK, closing as WONTFIX (seems the most appropriate resolution to me).