[Geany-devel] Print dialog and margins

[Lex Trotman]

On 31 January 2011 02:59, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 20:55:45 +1100
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2011/1/24 Алексей Антипов <1a_antipov at mail.ru>:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:11:17 +1100 письмо от Lex Trotman
>> > <elextr at gmail.com>:
>> >
>> >> 2011/1/24 Алексей Антипов <1a_antipov at mail.ru>:
>> >> > Hello,
>> >> > I have recently faced a problem when printing with Geany. The
>> >> > problem is that pages are printed with zero margin, which is
>> >> > obviously not good (line-endings get cut off, as most printers
>> >> > have printing area less than A4 paper width).
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I'd suggest that something is wrong in your printer setup, mine
>> >> correctly avoids the non-printing margins for both the real printer
>> >> and print to PDF option.  Perhaps the PPD file is wrong for your
>> >> printer.
>> >
>> > Probably, but can ALL PPD files provided by a well-known distro
>> > (Ubuntu 10.10) be wrong? It seems that the problem is related
>> > either to CUPS or to PPD file providers. Maybe we should gather
>> > some statistics (i.e. if someone else experiences such a problem),
>> > or should I file a bug?
>>
>> All PPDs do it, wierd, I'm using Linux Mint 9 which is built on Ubuntu
>> 10.04.  The printer PPD is from the manufacturer (Samsung) so I
>> suppose it should be right.
>
> I need to use also the driver set from Samsung for my box here and
> well... its working, but I've got the feeling its not the optimum.
> To be fair: I don't have any issues while printing it self and quality
> seems to be ok... but who knows.

Well mine works better than the manual says, eg I get double sided two
pages per page neither of which the manual says works on Linux.  Maybe
it depends on the model.  Margins are the same as on Windows.

Cheers
Lex

>
> Cheers,
> Frank
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