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so I imagine the info/settings probably live somewhere in $HOME/, but my Linux/Fedora print config knowledge has become outdated and quite rusty...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
Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to normal...
=== Cameron Mura wrote (on 11/28/2012 09:39 PM): ===
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:
- problem is not the printer itself -- e.g., a simplex queue on the same printer works fine (problem is I use duplex)
- 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...
- 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
On 29Nov2012 13:51, Cameron Mura cmura@virginia.edu wrote: | Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, | allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to | normal...
When this happens to you again, try moving the .cups directory sideays, eg:
cd mv .cups DOTcups-evil
This should let you examine it for specific evilness after the fact. Especially by comparing it against a well behaving .cups direct when you have a new one.
Cheers,
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Cameron Mura -
Cameron Simpson