[GRLUG] pdf's printing 2xLarge

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Fri Jul 6 09:24:12 EDT 2012


On Thu, 2012-07-05 at 11:36 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> When I print pdf's

Print from what application?

I don't see this issue printing PDFs.

> , 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.

I assume "Document Viewer" is Evince?

> Sending to Brother HL-1440 laser printer through a TE-100-P1U print
> server.

There is a queue on a local CUPS instance that points to this device?
What are your options & driver in CUPS?
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