Re: gnome-print question

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 16/03/2004 1:15 PM, Alex Roitman wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have posted this question to gnome-print-list and got no answer. I am
> hoping to get some help here, since gnome-print-list seems unusually
> quiet for an active list. Sorry if this was not a good idea :-)
>
> I have a question about setting the page size for the job. I would like
> to set the paper size to one of the following:
>    Letter, Legal, A0-A5, B0-B6, B, C, D, or E.
>
> The trick is that I need to set the page size _before_ the job is laid
> out and the gnome-print dialog appears.
>
> My problem is this: when I set up gnome-print config from default, I
> can only choose from the handful of sizes (Letter, Legal, Executive,
> A4, Monarch Envelope). No A0-A3, A5, B0-B6, etc. It seems that this is
> because my CUPS printing system only supports that handful of sizes.
>
> Is there a way to initialize config to the Postscript backend so that
> more paper sizes are available to set in config?
>  
Install the correct PPD file for your printer?  Unless I am mistaken, 
CUPS generates the media-supported list from values in the PPD file.  If 
the print driver says that a queue only supports a certain collection of 
sizes, why would you generate documents of a different size?

If you have the manufacturer's PPD file, you can load it with the 
command "lpadmin -p printqueue -P ppdfile".  You can then customise the 
defaults using the CUPS web interface.

James.

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