[ale] OT: Weird printing in Adobe on Fedora

[Scott Castaline]

    This problem actually started some time back when I was running FC6. 
When I printed a PDF in Adobe  Reader 7.0 it would continually shrink 
each subsequent page until the page was a thumbnail size centered on the 
paper. I had tried reinstalling everything from CUPs to hplip/hpijs and 
Adobe to no avail. I tried the PDF viewers that come with FC and the 
results were unsatisfactory. They do not have the ability to "shrink the 
page image to fit printer margins" like Adobe and therefore part of the 
page was getting cut off. This left me with having to send my PDFs to my 
wife's PC (M$ WinBlow$ 2K) to print through Adobe, a real PIA and it 
became an issue as to why she can't change to Linux.
    I have just installed Fedora 7, got everything running again and 
then I tried printing a PDF file with Adobe and got the same results. I 
did do one thing different with F7 in that when I did the software 
selections I chose both Gnome & KDE environments. I normally use Gnome. 
So this time I used XPDF and it was better, but cut off a line of text 
at the top. Then I tried in Adobe to print to file and then printed the 
.ps file in doc viewer and bingo it worked as tho Adobe was working ok.
    Any ideas as to why this happens? I had tried this on FC6 and had 
gotten the same results as printing directly from Adobe, even though the 
ps viewer had shown the file as normal, it would shrink each page when 
it went to the printer. It's a little bit of a PIA but I can live with 
it if I have to. The only thing that I can think of is possibly a memory 
issue, but I don't really see how as the file gets converted to ps and 
put on the disk before spooling to printer, essentially the same as 
printing to file and then printing that file? At least I think that's 
how CUPs works. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.