Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 161292
Why does OO think this page needs to be shrunk?
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:08 EST
When I print the attached OpenOffice Impress file, it tells me that it's bigger than the "print range" and needs to be shrunk. Print range isn't defined anywhere in the documentation. The documentation doesn't say where OO gets the "print range" dimensions from. I can't figure out where it's getting it from, and in any case it's wrong. If I tell it I want to "Trim" the document rather than fitting it, the document prints just fine. What's annoying is that I have to do this every single time I print -- there's no way to make this setting sticky so OO will stop asking me about it. I have 1.9.109-1.2.0.fc5.
Created attachment 115792 [details] OO Impress file which OO insists on shrinking
Incidentally, the printer driver has a defined imageable area margin of 36 points on each side. I wonder if this is where CUPS is getting its "print range" from. It's difficult to know what to set these values to in system-config-printer, since they aren't documented anywhere (including in the HTML page that comes up if you click on "Help" on the "Queue Options" page where these options are set).
OOo gets this information from CUPS as to what part of the page is addressable by the printer, if the margins set by the user are outside this range it gives the above error. AFAIK you can't/shouldn't override this area because your printer cannot physically print to that part of the page, or at least so the definition for the printer claims.