[nflug] Printing a pdf

[Joe]

Thanks.  I got it and installed it.  I will try it out soon.
The url below does not work any more.  I found it on freshmeat.

Joe

Roelant Ossewaarde wrote:
> 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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