[GRASS-dev] GRASS printing

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 5, 2007, at 1:17 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

> I did some experimentation with the lpr part of mapprint.tcl  
> tonight. I'm
> thinking that maybe I've done this before and come up with the same
> result--and that is why I turned to ghostscript.
>
> TclTk will output to a PS file that looks just fine when I open it.
>
> However, just sending this to lpr (>>lpr file.ps) gives a very poor  
> result.
> The map is up against the upper right edges of the page, rather  
> than being
> centered. It is clipped on all edges but the bottom and clipped a
> significant amount on the left side of the map (a side which is NOT  
> against
> the edge of a page).
>
> Is there something I'm missing in sending this to lpr?
>
> Michael

What about job options?  The CUPS manual has better documentation  
than the lpr man page.  Check http://localhost:631/documentation.html.

A mismatch of the document orientation and the job orientation can  
cause odd clipping.  And default position is probably upper-left, but  
again orientation can cause trouble, rotation said upper left to  
another corner.

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