Hello,
apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this
list occurred to me as one place to ask the question...)
In a nutshell: I'm wondering if anyone could point me to useful
resources that describe where user-specific Postscript
information/customizations/etc. are stored on a standard, vanilla Fedora
installation ? I really do mean /user-specific/ (not global)
preferences here, so I imagine the info/settings probably live somewhere
in $HOME/, but my Linux/Fedora print config knowledge has become
outdated and quite rusty... I tried some obvious things -- like blasting
away the $HOME/.gtklp that exists if one has GtkLP installed (this is a
GTK frontend to CUPS) -- but all this was to no avail, my page-scaling
problem persists. I've also searched extensively online for the info
(queries like "linux postscript user customization file"), but still
can't find anything.
A bit of backstory: Suddenly, any email I print from Thunderbird, by
sending to the default print queue, ends up being scaled-down by a
factor of ~0.8x, positioned flush-left and flush-bottom on the
standard-sized (8.5"x11" letter) paper. I learned the following from
various troubleshooting efforts and tests:
1. problem is not the printer itself -- e.g., a simplex queue on the
same printer works fine (problem is I use duplex)
2. problem is not Thunderbird-specific -- I initially thought I must
have mung'd a t-bird setting in prefs.js or something like that,
but turns out that's not the problem -- interestingly, this
scaling problem does /not/ occur if I print a PDF file to the
troublesome print queue, but it /does/ occur if I print a
postscript file from any postscript-aware app (e.g. okular), which
led me to conclude it's some generic postscript config problem...
3. problem is not global, but rather is user-specific -- the scaling
problem does not occur with another user account on the same machine
From the above I deduced it's some user-specific Postscript weirdness,
and was hoping this could be traced to something in $HOME, but for the
life of me I can't get any further.... maybe I'm missing something
obvious?!?
...any tips or pointers to online resources would be greatly appreciated!
thanks,
cam