>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy West <Jeremy> writes:
Jeremy> I'd like to see an answer to this as well. For the most part,
Jeremy> I have never gotten any of the kde apps to print two pages and
Jeremy> work. I always seem to miss the first line of the next page
Jeremy> because it cuts it off. Something to do with the margin.
> On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 20:59, Gerry Tool wrote:
>> For the most part, linux printing (CUPS used here) is working fairly
>> well. But why on earth aren't there page setup dialogs with margin
>> controls for printing? A number of KDE programs have issues with
>> lines missed when changing pages, second side printing starting too
>> far to the left, etc. gtk programs like gedit don't have any user
>> control either, and although they don't cause me as much trouble, I
>> would like to be able to set the margins.
There are some long-standing bugs in KDE relating to improper margins when
printing. Searching bugs.kde.org for open bugs on "print", "margin", and
"printing" reveals the following:
Printing chops last line in half:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48559
CSS margin/padding rendering BUG
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48708
Print margins not defined:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40635
A telling comment in this last bug report:
>I'm sorry but it's a (long known) bug of khtml that has (unfortunately) not
>been fixed for the 3.0 release. Basically this is due to the fact that
>khtml lets any web site override the margins using CSS even for printing.
>Michael Goffioul
>e-mail: goffioul@imec.be
One of these bugs was filed against Red Hat, another against Mandrake.
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Ron Olsen
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