Re: driverless printing and custom paper size

Hi,

Thanks for the fast replies.

On 3/19/26 15:12, Simon Becherer wrote:
 > I would suggest to change the ppd file, have done this for printing
 > papersize a7 (i found no printer who has this size configured)

I "sort of" managed to make it work, but the question remains: if I have 
a "driverless" printer, I can't really change the PPD, right? I.e. I 
have to *install* a printer and change the PPD?

What I had to do is: add printer; edit PPD (did that before and not 
afraid of code, haha, that helps); in LibreOffice (Ubuntu 22.04 because 
even more snap in 24.04 - changing to Debian but that's another topic) I 
had to change the "printer settings" to make the custom paper format 
that I added to the PPD actually choose a specific tray, then I seem to 
have to change the paper size every time again - but this might be due 
to the 7.3.7 Libreoffice version in Ubuntu 22.04, which is yet another 
topic.

*PageSize Blah/Blah: "<</PageSize[634.96062992 
841.889763779528]>>setpagedevice"
*PageRegion Blah/Blah: "<</PageSize[634.96062992 
841.889763779528]>>setpagedevice"
*ImageableArea Blah: "0.1 0.1 634.46062992 841.489763779528"
*PaperDimension Blah: "634.96062992 841.889763779528"

But: driverless plus this convoluted mess? No go?

Best regards,

Valentijn