F9 text editor printing has very small margins

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Sun May 4 03:45:45 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Andrew Farris <lordmorgul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Gerry Tool wrote:
>
> > Both gedit and kwrite in my F9 system print out their pages with very
> > small, about .25", side margins.  They both used to print with larger
> > margins which were more suitable for punching holes and insertion in a
> > notebook.
> >
> > Anyone else confirm this?
> >
> > I can't find a way to set it differently, and would really like to
> > have the old wider margins back.
> >
>
>  I haven't tried that on my printer, but I would assume they use the default
> margins for the printer queue, in system-config-printer.  I know I've seen
> 'text margins' in there for my canon inkjet printer.
>
>  --
You had my hopes up.  Indeed there are margin settings in the Job
Options tab of system-config-printer in the Text Options section.
However, changing them had no effect on the margins when printing from
the text editor.  I even restarted CUPS to no avail.

Gerry




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