[Users] E-Mail Printing under FreeBSD

[RW]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 10:01:07 +0100
Olive wrote:

> Le 06/12/12, edwardp at mcom.com a écrit :
> > I have been using FreeBSD on-and-off for the past couple of weeks
> > (by swapping hard drives, Linux on one, FreeBSD (as PC-BSD 9.0) on
> > the other).
> > 
> > When I printed an e-mail from the FreeBSD port of Claws, the first
> > line at the top of the page was chopped off.
> > 
> > I'm curious to know if this is a FreeBSD problem or perhaps a
> > problem with the Claws port.  The printer is an HP DeskJet 932C,
> > HPLIP (also installed) provides full support for this model.
> > 
> > I was able to (somewhat) solve a printing issue with the SeaMonkey
> > (SM) suite, printing web pages by adjusting one of the right margin
> > settings in the configuration file, however the URL which should
> > normally print at the upper right of the page with SM and Firefox,
> > does not print in with the FreeBSD port of SM, so this could be an
> > altogether different issue.  
> > 
> > Thanks in advance..
> 
> I do not know the answer but here are a few things you should do to
> figure out the problem.
> 
> First print to a file; and see the result (it should print to a PDF or
> PS file) with a PDF viewer. Then print the file with the lpr command
> (I am assuming you use CUPS). 



The port print/alignmargins contains a test page specifically for this
purpose.  And there is a script that generates a correction to add to
the ppd file. 

It only partially worked for me; I can control the offset, but not the
scaling.