[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 330820] Scaling to fit print margins incorrectly scales cropped page

[Albert Astals Cid]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330820

--- Comment #8 from Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #6)
> > It's a different bug, so yes, sure, please do.
> 
> False alarm - it's the PPDs which are being far too conservative. They
> specify 18/36-point margins for most of the printers I have access to.

Good, one bug less to worry about :-)

> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Ok, i fixed this a month ago but it seems to me something has regressed in
> > cups, i'll have a look when/if I have time but if you have time and know how
> > to do it, it would be great if you could install older/newer versions of
> > cups and see when/if starts working.
> 
> cups-1.5.4 seems to work as intended and actually scales the image to fit
> the 4mm hard margins of the printer rather than the 12.7/6.3mm margins
> reported by the PPD.
> 
> I'm beginning to think that maybe this is really a cups bug that has simply
> been exposed by something Okular does.

If you have time it would be awesome if you can try between the different cups
version of 1.5.4 (that you say works) and 1.7.1 (that you say it does not) so
we can pin point a bit more where it broke and then maybe approach the cups
developers about it.

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