Re: Options fitplot and fit-to-page.
Michael Sweet <[email protected]>
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What version of CUPS? What OS/Linux Distribution? On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:36 AM, "G.W. Haywood" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there, > > I've been tearing out what little hair I have left trying to scale PDF > files to A4 using command line options to lp. The files are mostly > engineering drawings which were originally created for A2 sheets. > > The man page for lp talks about the fitplot option. It's listed under > "COMMON JOB OPTIONS". It didn't seem to do anything at all. Grepping > the CUPS source I see not only that fitplot has been deprecated, but > also that it appears specifically to apply only to HP-GL/2 plot files. > This is not mentioned in the man pages. > > The scaling option doesn't work here either, using both "scaling=10" > and "scaling=30" produces a plot of about 2 inches by 3 inches from > the A2 PDF drawings, centred in the A4 page. > > Finally I stumbled across the fit-to-page option which worked at last > but doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the man pages. > > Can I send you a patch for the man pages, and if so where and how? > > -- > > 73, > Ged. > > _______________________________________________ > cups-bugs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/cups-bugs _________________________________________________________ Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair