[GRLUG] pdf's printing 2xLarge

[Don Ellis]

My wife has been complaining about this a lot lately, both with
printing, and with viewing images.

I think the issue is resolution of the image being printed. If a PDF
is rendered at 600 dpi and the printer is set for (handles) 300 dpi,
then the page will be 4x the size of a printer page. Screen resolution
is (usually) much less, so viewing the image will not be very helpful.
If you have a Page Preview option, that should tell you how many pages
will be taken at current resolution. I think Shrink to Printable will
eliminate printing whitespace outside the actual image, which is not
the problem here.

Otherwise, I think this is a common (increasing) issue that should
have been settled in the mid- to late-'80s.

--Don Ellis


On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Eric Beversluis
<ebever at researchintegration.org> wrote:
> When I print pdf's, they're coming out of the printer with each
> dimension doubled, so the page only shows 1/4 of the content. When I
> look in print preview it seems OK and on the Page Handling tab I have it
> set "Shrink to Printable Area." I end up having to manually tell it to
> print at 50%. One of the documents that gave me trouble this morning is
> a pdf received as a mail attachment; the other is a pdf of a LibreOffice
> document saved as .doc and exported to pdf with LibreOffice.
>
> Pdf's are opened in and printed from Document Viewer in Fedora 15.
> Sending to Brother HL-1440 laser printer through a TE-100-P1U print
> server.
>
> Any ideas/insights?
>
> Thanks.