Bug 74267

Summary:	reduction in paper size results in clipping of content
Product:	[Applications] kdeprint	Reporter:	sombragris
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDEPrint Devel Mailinglist <kde-print-devel>
Status:	CLOSED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	normal	CC:	jlayt
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description sombragris 2004-02-05 19:18:37 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:          Linux

When one prints a document formated for a given paper size (such as US Legal) in a smaller size (such as US Letter) the page content is clipped out of the page. This result in loss of printing content.

I would appreciate seeing this issue fixed. Thanks for the hard work.

Yours,


Eduardo Sanchez
Asunción, Paraguay, South America
member of the KDE-ES translation team

Comment 1 Cristian Tibirna 2005-08-22 20:39:32 UTC

If one sends a (e.g.) US Legal document to a printer containing (e.g.) US Letter paper, the printer usually issues an error and requires providing US Legal paper. Or I don't understand what you mean.

Comment 2 sombragris 2005-08-22 20:53:07 UTC

Christian, thanks for looking into this issue. What I meant was that when I sent to the printer some document formatted for a custom paper size larger than the one selected in kprinter, then the printing output was clipped, resulting in loss of content.

A desirable behavior would be the resizing of content so that it could fit the page set in kprinter, usually by activating a preference.

Yours,


Eduardo

Comment 3 Michael Goffioul 2005-08-23 08:47:49 UTC

What you propose requires print data processing, something kdeprint does not. If the paper sizes do not match, it's *normal* that you have clipping. This doesn't happen when you print from a KDE application, because kdeprint is able to feedback the correct paper size to the application before generating the print data. This is not the case for PS generated by 3rd-party applications.

Note however that there exists a filter based on psresize utility that you can apply from kprinter (printer properties dialog -> Filters tab), which will resize the print content, but you have to apply it manually.

Michael.

Comment 4 Cristian Tibirna 2005-09-24 05:34:45 UTC

The best place to "resize the content" (as required in comment #2) is in the application that generates the to-be-printed document in the first place. That application knows much more information about the document to print that kprinter ever would.

Thanks

Comment 5 John Layt 2008-12-31 16:35:27 UTC

Closing old Resolved status bug.