Re: [Evolution] Printer issues

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Fri, 2017-12-29 at 10:10 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> File->Print Preview does exactly the same thing as File->Print.
>  There doesn't seem to be any way to get a preview except to print to
> file and then view it.
> (More Important) Everything prints larger than I would like: fonts
> too big, images too big.  An example is attached.  Very often the
> print output takes several pages when it would easily fit on one.
>  How can I control the print size?

I'm afraid there's a long standing (>12 yrs) bug for this:

 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320895

There's been no activity or comments on it for a long time, so it won't
look to the devs that it's important.  I presume that people don't tend
to print emails very much (which is no help if you do need to print
them!). Add a comment to the bug report if it's important to you.

BTW I think the mail printing format is determined by the file 

 /usr/share/evolution/theme/webview-print.css

(that's for F27 - it may vary by distro).  It needs root privs to edit
it and you need to know CSS and I have no idea how the individual CSS
components interact with each other - so go gently with it and try
things. Any changed you make will probably be over-written the next
time Evo is updated.

P.