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Created attachment 550551 [details] Postscript from groff formatted for Legal paper Description of problem: Postscript formatted for Legal paper is shifted up, with top lost. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.4.8-5.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create Postscript for legal size 2. Print it. 3. Notice shifted text. Actual results: defective printing Expected results: correct printing Additional info: The cups printing system has apparently forgotten how to observe the Paper Size specification. If PostScript, formatted for legal size paper, is sent to a logical printer specified to use legal size paper, the printed text is shifted up to where letter size paper would begin and the top is lost. The attached PostScript file, addr.ps, was generated by groff and illustrates the problem. Viewing this file with gsview addr.ps shows five little pages, side-by-side, in landscape mode along the 14 inch page length. However, when printed, the text is shifted up to where letter paper would begin, and the fifth little page is lost. However, a test page sent to that logical printer prints correctly. My laser printer is an older Minolta PageWorks 12, which implements PCL5e (HP LaserJet 4+ compatible), so I use the driver "Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/ljet4". Using system-config-printer, I have defined two logical printers: "minolta", which uses Letter paper from the default feeder; and "legal", which uses Legal paper from the manual feeder. To print on legal paper I send output to lpr -P legal with legal paper loaded in the manual hopper. This scheme has always worked perfectly in the past, but now fails. The corresponding files in /etc/cups/ppd - minolta.ppd and legal.ppd - differ in apparently correct ways, but these differences seem ineffective. This is with cups-1.4.8-5.fc15.x86_64. [
Please attach the PPD you are using (from /etc/cups/ppd/) for the queue set to Legal size paper.
Created attachment 550719 [details] minolta.ppd for Letter paper
Created attachment 550720 [details] legal.ppd for Legal paper
Created attachment 552384 [details] legal.pcl Please print this file using this command line: lp -oraw -dlegal legal.prn What output do you get?
Well, the attachment's name was "legal.pcl", so I ran the command: lp -oraw -dlegal legal.prn The printer output is a Printer Test Page that is correctly positioned on legal paper. The top border is 9/16 in below the paper top, the bottom is 7/16 above the bottom, and the side borders are 1/4 in from the paper edge. The text says: Make and Model: Generic PCL 5e Printer Foomatic/ljet Media Dimensions: 8.50 x 14.00 inches Media Limits: 0.25 x 0.50 to 8.25 x 13.50 inches Driver Name: LJET4.PPD Driver Version: 1.1 In short, the output is perfect. Now what?
What I MEANT to type was I ran the command: lp -oraw -dlegal legal.pcl
Well, that was the result of doing this: PPD=legal.ppd /usr/lib/cups/filter/bannertops 1 tim '' 1 '' < \ /usr/share/cups/data/testprint > bannertops.ps PPD=legal.ppd /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops 1 tim '' 1 '' < \ bannertops.ps > pstops.ps PPD=legal.ppd /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip 1 tim '' 1 '' < \ pstops.ps > legal.pcl In other words, running all the filters in order, using the legal.ppd PPD file. It *should* have been identical to you printing a test page locally. So, if you print a test page locally, do you get the same result?
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