Tim: >> i.e. On my much older computer and printer, if I said a box started >> 12 cm down, and 5 cm across, was 3 cm high and 5 cm wide, then it >> printed exactly as I specified. >> >> On the newer gear, where it threw away standards, and turned them >> into arbitrary unspecified figures, I had to waste paper doing test >> prints and making tiny unpredictable adjustments, to get things to >> print right. >> >> I really hate pinheads who stuff things up until it *seems* to work >> for them, without understanding what they're doing. It stuffs things >> up for everyone *else* in an unmanageable way. > Todd Denniston: > Are you speaking of gimp/gutenprint? Well, actually the situation predated me using Linux, but still exists. One example would be trying to print something using OpenOffice.org. The page dimensions don't match. I ran out of business cards one day, so I bought one of those perforated sheets from the local shops to make some up in a hurry. It was one hell of a time trying to get printing to print in the right spots. I had to leave very large margins to allow for sloppiness. After an hour or so of grief, I bought plain blank card and a guillotine. Manually cutting cards up was far neater than dealing with cards with printing rarely ever in the centre of the card. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.19-78.2.30.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
