User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0.1 Build Identifier: Printing of any text document in landscape orientation from any text/doc application (gedit,Libreoffice) is producing a clipping of the data on the left side of the envelope paper size (#10 Envelope, DL Envelope, A2 Envelop etc...). The filter chain is pdftops->gstoraster. Viewing the raster output from Rasterview application clearly shows the clip on the left side of the envelope paper size. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create a simple text document in a gedit application. 2.Create a print queue of any Deskjet or Inkjet printer using hpcups PPD file for that printer. This you can do using hp-setup command available in HPLIP printer drivers. 3.Open the text document from gedit application and select the printer and select the page size to be any Envelope paper size (e.x #10 Envelope) and keep the orientation to landscape and send the print job. You can reproduce it by using cupsfilter command too (this is for debugging purpose). 1.Pause the print queue in system-config-printer. 2.Open the text document in gedit application. Select the printer queue and select the PageSize = #10 Envelope and Orientation = Landscape and send the print job. 3. Go to location /var/spool/cups/ and you will find a file starting with name d00XX-XX. 4. Copy the file to /home/ location and name it output.pdf 5. Run command cupsfilter -m application/vnd.cups-raster -p /etc/cups/ppd/<PPD file> -o "PageSize=Env10 fitplot" /home/output.pdf > /home/output.ras 6. Open the file output.ras using Rasterview application which u can download and install from http://www.easysw.com/~mike/rasterview/index.html cmd: rasterview /home/output.ras This will clearly show the clip on the left side of the envelope paper size. Actual Results: Clipping of the data on the left side of the envelop paper size in landscape orientation. Expected Results: Clip should not happen and data should be present with in the page margins This could be due to ghostscript handling landscape orientation envelope paper sizes in different way. This defect is affecting only the envelop paper sizes of any inkjet/deskjet or laserjet printer PPD.
Created attachment 599806 [details] PPD file of an OfficeJet printer
Created attachment 599809 [details] PDF file generated from gedit application from a text document
Created attachment 599813 [details] Text file that i used for testing
Other paper sizes like Letter,A4 etc.. are printed file in landscape orientation. Please help us to understand why this different behaviour between normal paper size and envelop papersize.If its a bug in ghostscript please provide us a fix for this. Thanks & Regards, Goutam
Any update on this ???
This is due to the imageable area being smaller than the media size (see the Env10 ImageableArea attribute in the PPD). gedit ought to take this into account when formatting its print output.
Thanks for the update Tim. Will you be pushing this bug to gedit folks or should i have to log separate bug for this in gedit ? We been seeing this issue from fedora 16 onwards. This is happening with only the text files printing in landscape orientation only on the Envelope paper sizes . Envelop paper sizes have more bottom margins than compared to other paper sizes this is as per the printer hardware specification. When i checked this on Ubuntu 12.04 distro i could found that cpdftocps filter(script) is taking care of adding the hardware margins into the ps file and the ghostscript takes care of it further. Please provide us a solution with this regard. Thanks for you continuous support. Regards, Goutam Kodu
I've changed the component to gedit so the developers can take a look.
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