From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (Win98; U) Description of problem: For the printer I use, text prints too close to the edges of the page. Using the old printtool (for LPR not LPRng) you could add margin offces from the GUI tool. The generated print filter had an mpage command that looked like this: mpage -b$mpage_paper -o -l -m${RTLFTMAR}lr -m${TOPBOTMAR}tb The LPRng syste uses m4 to process print filters instead of shell, but the "-m" options are no longer generated in mf.cfg. The new printconf tool (both -gui and -tui) no longer have the textboxes to enter these values. I suspect thatthe larger selection of improved print drivers caused the development team to think this functionality was no longer needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Use printconf Actual Results: /var/spool/lpd/<printername>/mf.cfg includes no -m options to the mpage command, used in the: define (`TEXTfilter', ...mpage...) command Expected Results: -m options in the mf.cfg file for the text filter Additional info: A simple work-around is to hand-edit the mf.cfg file after using printconf. But if printconf is ever used again you must remember to re-edit the file. This is a problem waiting to happen. I wonder why this feature was dripped in the first place. Certainly it is easy enough to edit the Python backend script to add some defines and ifdefs for RTLFTMAR and TOPBOTMAR, and to update the front end to have these text boxes.
I have the same problem. The printtool that came with RedHat 6.2 was very handy and easy to use. It was disappointing that the printool that came with RedHat 7.1 took away the functionality of being able to adjust page margins. Now it gets worse. With the printtool from RedHat 7.3, with printer Driver for Tektronix Phaser 850, the option to select a different tray (Media Source) had disappeared. I and many other people depended on this feature for selecting plain paper/transparencies printing. It may seem trivial, but printing is a very important part of using a computer, and something many people do frequently, and fixing the printtool cannot be too hard. A simple workaround I guess is to replace an input file to magic filter with the one from rh7.1 - in my system, the file is /var/spool/lpd/<queue_id>/Postcript-157312.foo But this is unsatisfactory - some user in my department balked at the idea of hacking system files. With this downward trend, the joke around is what option will we lose with the next RedHat version - but my hope is for an updated version of printtool appear in the download list soon.
This is more or less what the -Z options are/were used for with lprng. Though the question remains - what options can you pass to which drivers.
Closing - lprng no longer ships - kprinter and cups ppds solves this confusion.