Re: Mission Impossible: 1:1 PDF printing via GUI

Soren Stoutner <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:50:01 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.qt-kde,gmane.linux.debian.printing,gmane.linux.debian.devel.gtk-gnome
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<1794869.X513TT2pbd@soren-desktop>

Matthias,

On Thursday, February 27, 2025 1:37:07 PM MST Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> apparently it is impossible to print a PDF from the GUI without it 
> getting scaled, shifted, or otherwise mutilated.
> 
> I generated a PDF file that needs to get printed 1:1 and fed that to an 
> IPP laser printer (Brother DCP, nothing special). This worked perfectly 
> … with "lpr -o print-scaling=none".
> 
> It did not work with Gnome/evince (refused to not scale the output).
> 
> It did not work with KDE/okular (didn't scale, but shifted the content 
> to the right).

I am able to get it to print correctly in Okular using the following settings (see attached 
screenshot).  Note that when setting the scale mode to None, it automatically selects 
"Force rasterization”, but you can turn it back off.

Side note, I only have letter paper, but I was able to recreate a version of your document in 
Letter for testing (I print this way a lot, but it has been a while since I actually tested, so I 
wanted to make sure something hadn’t changed).  Also, my printer doesn’t print edge-to-
edge, so in my test document it cuts off the edges of the boxes, but if you have an edge-
to-edge printer it should work).

-- 
Soren Stoutner
[email protected]

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