Printing question

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Wed Jul 2 14:32:21 CDT 2003


Well, I'll leave the bug open, but it does seem to point to a bug
in either gnome-print of gtkhtml now.

-derek

"Michael J. Rensing" <mjrconsulting at shaw.ca> writes:

> As an added datum, I can tell you that on my RH9 system I see exactly
> the same problem when printing from Evolution. I'm guessing that rules
> out GnuCash as the problem...
> 
> Regards,
> Michael
> 
> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 17:44, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > I use a modified RedHat 7.3 at the moment.  I have access to a RH9
> > system so I can test it from there, but on RH7.3 it works fine.
> > 
> > -derek
> > 
> > Dave Reed <drlinux at columbus.rr.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Chris, Are you running Red Hat Linux 9? And Derek, are you running
> > > something else?
> > > 
> > > Printing to PostScript seemed to work fine for me with RHL 8.0, but
> > > when I went to 9 I started having the same problem. I'm currently
> > > running 1.8.4-0.9 rpm that came from the Red Hat maintainer and it's
> > > still happening. I've just learned to live with it for now.
> > > 
> > > Didn't someone mention problems with gtkhtml causing printing problems
> > > not too long ago? Could this be the issue?
> > > 
> > > I didn't see any gnome-print configuration from the gnome panel. I
> > > still use fvwm2 but started gnome to take a look so I may have missed
> > > it.
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Monday 30 June 2003 19:20, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > > > You seem to be on the right track -- it sounds like you have a
> > > > misconfigured paper size.  GnuCash just uses gnome-print for
> > > > postscript generation.  I just tried on my page and it works
> > > > just fine for me, so I suspect it's a soft-config problem or
> > > > a problem on your particular machine/install.
> > > > 
> > > > You might want to go into the gnome panel configuration for gnome 
> > > print
> > > > and see how your have your settings configured.
> > > > 
> > > > -derek
> > > > 
> > > > Chris Gentle <gentlec at hiwaay.net> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > When I try to print a report my output seems to get chopped off at
> > > > > the bottom of the page, usually printing only the top half of the
> > > > > text that should be on the last line of the report.  The next page
> > > > > picks right up where the previous page left off printing the bottom
> > > > > half of the line of text.  It seems that the margins are wrong or
> > > > > that it's defaulting to the wrong papersize.  This also happens when
> > > > > I dump to a .ps file and look at it in a PostScript viewer, so it's
> > > > > not my printer.  Could be in the postscript generation I guess.
> > > > > Anybody else get this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > -- 
> > > > > Chris
> > > 
> > > 
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