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[eric.linux@xxxxxxxxxxx (Eric)]

Just got into this mailing list so I'm not sure what was posted before.

I'm using Suse 8.0.  I have a HP PhotoSmart 1000 bought in the States 
connected via USB.  I'm using A4 size paper bought here in Germany. 

I tried printing something using a KDE word processor, don't remember which, 
and the top line of the page wasn't fully printed.  I switched to US letter 
size and everything printed fine.

I opened up a pdf file with the default ghostscript by clicking on the pdf 
file.  About 25% of the right hand text was lost.  It looks like the margins 
shifted.  When I opened the same file up using Acroread the printout was 
fine.  Beats me.

Eric

On Monday 27 May 2002 17:34, J. Scott Thayer, M.D. wrote:
> OK, just for the sake of being able to answer honestly I just deinstalled
> and reinstalled my HPIIP so I could run the graphic and ascii tests. Both
> print nicely but I don't know how they should look if they were 'perfect'
> so who knows? I don't know how far down from the top the first line of text
> should appear on the ascii test and the graphic looks like it COULD be
> offset a bit high. In OpenOffice there is what I consider good margin
> control, if I open a default document, type a line at the top of the page
> and print it specifying 'letter' the line is off the top of the page. 3
> carriage returns bring it to a printable level. You could say, 'oh well,
> just arrange it on the page' but the problem with some programs is that
> evne if you do that for the first page, what about the second and so on? My
> biggest problem is from the KEdit etc. family. One thing about KEdit, if
> you print you are using Enscript. You can get to a place where you are
> supposed to be able to modify how it behaves, like to get rid of the d**n
> header. If you look at the supposed command line it has --no-header in it
> but it prints the header and I have been unable to get it to recognize
> changes in the Boolean variable that appears to control whether there is a
> header or not. I am aware of the A4 issue and always look for that first
> but it has been of little help most of the time. It is a shame that linux
> is so good in many ways but I still need to resort to Win98 to do 'real
> work', at least the involves reliable printing. I have been with linux from
> early on and have first issue Linux Journal etc. etc. I love linux but this
> sucks. It should not be this much of a pain to do something so critical as
> printing.
> Scott
>
> > Dr Scott,
> > 	Out of what programs do you experience these too close to the edge
> > printouts?  Does it only do this from Konq, text editors or standard
> > generic programs in the system or do you get this same problem when
> > printing from KWord, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc?  I have seen this
> > happen with the generic programs in KDE, but never with the word
> > processors or other programs.  I suspect it is something to do with the
> > size paper selected in the printer setup using the extended margins.  I
> > seem to remember you can choose just A4 or A4 with large margins as
> > well as Letter or Letter with larger margins.
> >
> > I can't be sure if this has any effect on it as I have not experimented
> > myself, but maybe someone else here has?  Also, when doing the test
> > printout in your setup, how did it do?  Did the test cut off anything
> > or was it correctly lined up on the page?
> >
> > Patrick