Issues with printing to Ledger (11 x 17-inch) paper

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Hello, 

I look forward to comments about the following issues I'm having.  

To duplicate the issues:  

1.  Dia 0.97.1 on Vista SP2.  The physical printer referred to is 
an HP LaserJet 5200 with up-to-date firmware (8.130.2) and up-to-
date "Universal Printing PCL 6" driver (5.2.0).  

2.  Dia starts with a new file.  

3.  Select the "File > Page Setup..." dialog, then select Ledger 
size (27.9 x 43.2 cm) and landscape orientation.  OK the dialog.  

4.  Draw a rectangle (using the Box tool from the standard toolbox) 
that nearly fills the page.  

5.  Save the file.  

6.  Print to a printer which has Ledger paper.  

7.  Issue A:  only about the left-hand 2/3 of the diagram will 
print.  The part that prints is what would fit within another sheet 
of paper rotated 90 degrees (portrait orientation) and superimposed 
on the real paper.  

8.  Now print to a PDF printer driver.  (I happen to use PrimoPDF - 
I am not particularly endorsing it.)  

9.  Issue B:  The diagram is rotated 90 degrees with respect to the 
paper.  That is, the paper is in portrait orientation, but the 
diagram is in landscape.  Because the diagram runs off the edge of 
the paper, the same part of the diagram prints as in Issue A.  

Neither issue seems to happen with Tabloid or Letter paper, when 
printing (using default printer properties) either to a physical 
printer or to a PDF printer driver.  Tabloid is about 1 mm larger 
in length and width than Ledger; Letter (8.5 x 11 inches) is half 
the size of Ledger.  

With Tabloid selected in Dia, and if I explicitly set the physical 
printer (using the Windows printer driver's Preferences) to 
landscape orientation, then Issue A occurs.  

About issues A and B:  I would rather not select Tabloid in the 
page setup, because that is not the paper size that I have.  

Issue C:  With any attempt to print Tabloid or Ledger to my 
physical printer, the printer prompts me to load Ledger-size paper, 
even though such paper is already present in a tray in the printer, 
and the printer allows me to select this tray as an override from 
the front panel.  Other Windows applications do not cause the 
printer to prompt me this way when I set them to print on Ledger 
paper.  Preferably, at least with Ledger, the prompt would not 
occur, so that printing could happen without the user having to 
push buttons on the printer, and without the intermediate step of 
converting to PDF.  

I notice in http://git.gnome.org/browse/dia/tree/lib/paper.c that 
the dimensions of Ledger size are rounded to 0.1 cm â maybe this 
explains Issue C.  The exact metric equivalent of Ledger (11 x 17 
inches) is 27.94 cm X 43.18 cm.  

Thanks in advance for discussion.