On 04/20/2014 02:38 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2014 04.30:57 Greg Madden wrote: (...)
> I recieve construction drawings as pdf"s. These are ARCH D = > 24x36 or ANSI D = 22x34. I view them in kpdf, I print them to > my printer using Tabloid, paper size = 11x17. > > Only an 8x11 image gets printed on the 11x17 page.. Can not > figure out how to get the correct size image, seems like > shrink to fit, or some such were options. Do not see any > such in the kpdf print dialog. > > Using krinter to print the same file it prints an 11x17 > portion of the larger file size. > > kpdf has a different print dialog than kprinter...?, > > Using cups, server:/var/run/cups/cups.sock > printer driver for my HP Offficejet Pro 8600: hpcups 3.12.6
You don't say if you went to cups to set up your printer. For my HP CP1215 I get a possibility to define a custom paper size, I don't know if this could help.
Thierry
Same here for my HP Deskjet........before the smoke came out :-)