On Sunday 21 October 2001 17:45, Mads Martin Joergensen wrote:
* Steven T. Hatton
[Oct 21. 2001 17:40]: I am once again frustrated with printing. It seems as if something has gone wrong with the paper size or margin settings related to ghostscript. I believe the problem is related to the postscript files I create locally as opposed to those I download from, for example, www.w3c.org. If I do something such as 'enscript rfc3104.txt -o rfc3104.ps;gv rfc3104.ps &' I see that the created postscript file has a very small left margin.
I've discovered that most of the default setting on my box are for A4 paper size. I'm in the US and for reasons beyond my control I am forced to conform to standards which are inconsistent with the rest of the world. Nonetheless, I would like to be able to print without having to read (or write) a thesis paper on postscript. the files I've discovered with a default A4 papersize are:
/etc/a2ps-site.cfg /etc/enscript.cfg /usr/share/ghostscript/6.51/lib/gs_init.ps
changing the papersize to Letterdj or letter in these does not seem to fix the problem. I can't seem to identify the configuration setting to correct this problem. Does anybody know what the problem is, or how I can fix it?
In /etc/rc.config there is an entry called GROFF_PAGESIZE. If you put that to letter, and run SuSEconfig, does that help?
I have a similar problem, and I have had it through every release of SuSE I have ever owned (which goes back to about 5.1 or so). When I print ASCII files, the bottom line is chopped in half. Sometimes the bottom line disappears entirely and the penultimate line is chopped in half. (Kinda annoying when you're printing source files for off-line debugging!) I am using an Epson Stylus Color 800. Adding "letter" to GROFF_PAGESIZE does not fix it. I can print ps files and pdf files fine though. Cheers, Sean -- Theo. Sean Schulze theo.schulze@myokay.net "[T]he key to maintaining leadership in the economy and the technology that are about to emerge is likely to be the social position of knowledge professionals and social acceptance of their values." -- Peter Drucker