On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 07:28 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I just got a new HP Photosmart C5580 which can (among other things) > print on inkjet printable DVDs and CDs. My current goal (probably > hopeless :-) is to tweak the .ppd file for the copy of the printer > I made which defaults to the DVD tray and DVD paper size so that > any application I care to print from will print in the middle > of the DVD (a quest that will probably take years and cost > thousands of lives :-). > > My first big mystery came with sample printouts I made of a > hashmark pattern I could use to measure how far off from the > center I am: Both inkscape and gimp print the pattern with > the exact same offsets from the center of the CD, but open > office prints with a completely different offset. > > As near as I can tell, I've told every app the page size is > the same and there are no margins. They all print the marks > scaled the same with the same distance between marks, so > does anyone have any clue why open office thinks the center > of the media is in a different place? Is there some obscure > printer setup option I missed somewhere in OO? > > Even if I can figure how to tweak the .ppd file, it won't > do much good if different applications use it a different way :-). ---- there is spadmin program /usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/spadmin but I'm not sure you will get any additional tweaks there. try printing to pdf and then using kpdf or AdobeReader to print it. I am gathering that you are using a non-standard paper size and that is where you are having troubles. Perhaps if you add the paper size to the PPD it might standardize things - even for OOo If it were me doing labels, I'd probably be using Inkscape (likely) or gimp to print them anyway. You also might want to check out glabels Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
