[Bug 440399] [NEW] printed document scaled down

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Binary package hint: cups

In kubuntu-9.10 alpha, I have set up a Xerox Phaser 8560 printer. Printed pages are scaled down by about 15%.
Checking or unchecking the 'Scale to fit' in the KDE printer configuration tool does not effect this.
Further settings in the KDE printer configuration tool:
Options>Page Size>A4
Job Options>Media:>iso_a4_210_297mm
An intermediate file /var/spool/cups/tmp/foomatic-l26BoC, which seems to be a PDF file, havint this header:

%PDF-1.4
%^P1^P2^P3^P4
% This file was generated by pdftopdf
%%PDFTOPDFNumCopies : 1
%%PDFTOPDFCollate : false

has a papersize A4, but the graphics in this document is already scaled
down.

I edited /etc/cups/printers.conf, and changed the line 'Option scaling
99' (99 being the highest value which I could set in the KDE printer
config gui) to 'Option scaling 109' (I determined this value by
experimenting) then restarted cups. The printed documents are now
roughly correct (very slight difference from a correct scaling is
probably due to the fact that only integer numbers can be provided for
this option)

cups version: 1.4.1-2
libpoppler5 version: 0.12.0-0ubuntu1

Description:    Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release:        9.10

** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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printed document scaled down
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/440399
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