[Lilux-help] Debian testing, Mozilla & psnup

[Patrick Kaell]

Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a strange kind of problem on Debian testing with
> Mozilla and printing (cups).
> I often want to print somewhat longer documents, but without
> wasting too much dead trees. Therefore I print into a file,
> do a psnup -2 to get two pages per sheet of paper, and print
> the resulting postscript document.
> When using Mozilla this way, the original postscript document
> is fine, but the result of the psnup -2 is unusable, as the
> fonts remain at the original size, i.e. the lower and right
> parts of the pages get lost - no proper resizing of the page,
> all in all. I verified this both with gv and gs (which
> sometimes show slightly different results depending on the
> postscript document, especially with graphics).
> This same problem does not appear with postscript documents
> generated from OpenOffice for instance.

Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce the problem. I tried Mozilla 1.7 and 
the Slashdot Frontpage. I used psnup -2 to scale down and viewed the 
result with gv.

Perhaps, you could give some more details about your Mozilla version and 
the webpage you tried to print.

Greetings, Patrick