20 Apr
2014
20 Apr
'14
7:54 a.m.
On 04/20/2014 02:38 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Sunday 20 April 2014 04.30:57 Greg Madden wrote:
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Same here for my HP Deskjet........before the smoke came out :-)
>>>>> 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