Re: [Printing-user-general] printer alignment

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[email protected] wrote:
> The alignmargins perl script and the align.ps file from linuxprinting.org's 
> download site talk about different ways to tweak the margin settings. 
> The alignmargins script appears to actually modify the .ppd file, 
> where the align.ps file prints instructions that talk about a gs_init.ps file. 
> 

You should not modify gs_init.ps, as otherwise you change the margins 
also for other printers or for screen display of PostScript files. Also 
gs_init.ps is only used by GhostScript. If you have a native PostScript 
printer changes in this file do not change anything.

Modifying the PPD file works in any workflow with PostScript involved: 
Native PostScript printers but also printing out of most applications to 
a print queue which uses GhostScript with a printer driver.

> I'm wondering if one of those two choices (or perhaps a 3rd one) 
> is "better" in the sense that it is lower level and likely to take 
> effect no matter who prints (for instance, gimp appears to 
> have its own printing system). 
> 

If a printer is directly supported by GIMP and you choose the 
appropriate model in the printer setup dialog of the GIMP, your margin 
adjustments will not have any influence as there is no PostScript in the 
workflow. GIMP converts the image directly into the printer's language. 
If you choose "PostScript Levek 2" in GIMP and remove the "-oraw" from 
the printing command line, the job is processed by the printing system 
and gets to there as PostScript. So the alignment will be used.

    Till