[PLUG] Rat off a Sinking Ship?

Kyle Hayes kyle_hayes at speakeasy.net
Sun Jan 26 22:08:01 UTC 2003


On Thursday January 23, 2003 22:40, Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> Regarding the paper size problems and SuSE...Make sure in your printer
> setup in YaST2 that you've got the proper paper size specified for your
> printer configuration. I know I somehow got A4 in their somehow for my
> locally connected inkjet printer and had to go back and correct the
> paper size. I've never had any weirdness since I corrected the paper
> size problem and I'm printing from a variety of KDE programs, Netscape
> 7.x and OpenOffice 1.x without any problems now.
>
> About my only problem has been dealing with a remote BSD system for a
> laser printer. For some reason I have extra large top margin on every
> page I try to print remotely through CUPS. For this reason I had to
> fall back and use LPRng intead. CUPS worked very nice for my locally
> connected inkjet printer but I need access to both printers and CUPS
> and LPRng are mutually exclusive. YasT2 even goes so far as to remove
> one or the other depending what printer daemon/spooler you choose to
> use.
>
> If only CUPS supported a non-filtered forwarding queue to a remote
> printer like LPRng supports. I know the remote printer handles the
> Postscript output of all the programs I use but for some reason CUPS
> insists on performing local filtering first before sending the remote
> printer the data.

The paper size was easy to find in SuSE 8.0, but in 8.1 when I set it, it 
doesn't seem to change anything.  That's what's odd.  I've had to set 
applications manually.

I've set it in Yast, but it hasn't changed Mozilla.  Still looking...

Best,
Kyle





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