[nflug] Printing a pdf

[Roelant Ossewaarde]

Joe,

The easiest thing is to print to a postscript file. Then you can use  
tools like psnup, psresize, etc. (these are called `psutils', http:// 
www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html) to propertly format  
your document.

Alternatively, use a2ps which is a swiss army knife that does all  
these things, makes coffee and cleans out the bathroom at the same time.

In general, other than with Windows or Mac, printer settings are not  
used to change the way your document looks. They are only used as  
settings for the printer. If you'd have a printer-option to change  
the document orientation or size, you'd change it with printer  
settings. The things you are trying to do are generally preprocessing  
steps. Some use general preprocessing scripts, consisting of pstools  
or other commands, to do preprocessing that needs to be done all the  
time.

Bye,

Roelant.

On Mar 15, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Joe wrote:

> Hi.  I just downloaded a pdf.  When I try to print it from xpdf  
> 3.0, it prints portrait and cuts off a bunch of the text.  There  
> are no printer properties, etc. for setting up landscape.
>
> There is a "Print with command" I could fill in, but I'm not sure  
> what to put there for this requirement.
>
> How do I fix this?  I tried to install adobe acrobat reader, but it  
> failed to install.
>
> As a work around, I was able to view it as html (from Google) and  
> then copy and paste special text only int OOo writer, but that's a  
> kludge and loses almost all the formatting.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Joe (Mandrake 9.1)
>
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