slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

Cameron Mura <cmura@xxxxxxxxxxxx> · Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:39:16 -0500

Hello,

apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this
list occurred to me as one place to ask the question...)

In a nutshell: I'm wondering if anyone could point me to useful
resources that describe where user-specific Postscript
information/customizations/etc. are stored on a standard, vanilla
Fedora installation ?  I really do mean user-specific (not
global) preferences here, so I imagine the info/settings probably live
somewhere in $HOME/, but my Linux/Fedora print config knowledge has
become outdated and quite rusty... I tried some obvious things -- like
blasting away the $HOME/.gtklp that exists if one has GtkLP installed
(this is a GTK frontend to CUPS) -- but all this was to no avail, my
page-scaling problem persists.  I've also searched extensively online
for the info (queries like "linux postscript user customization file"),
but still can't find anything.

A bit of backstory: Suddenly, any email I print from Thunderbird, by
sending to the default print queue, ends up being scaled-down by a
factor of ~0.8x, positioned flush-left and flush-bottom on the
standard-sized (8.5"x11" letter) paper.  I learned the following from
various troubleshooting efforts and tests:

  problem is not the printer itself -- e.g., a simplex queue on the
same printer works fine (problem is I use duplex)
  problem is not Thunderbird-specific -- I initially thought I must
have mung'd a t-bird setting in prefs.js or something like that, but
turns out that's not the problem -- interestingly, this scaling problem
does not occur if I print a PDF file to the troublesome print
queue, but it does occur if I print a postscript file from any
postscript-aware app (e.g. okular), which led me to conclude it's some
generic postscript config problem...
  problem is not global, but rather is user-specific -- the scaling
problem does not occur with another user account on the same machine

>From the above I deduced it's some user-specific Postscript weirdness,
and was hoping this could be traced to something in $HOME, but for the
life of me I can't get any further.... maybe I'm missing something
obvious?!?

...any tips or pointers to online resources would be greatly
appreciated!

thanks,

cam

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