We have a report server which generates PDF files. These reports are 8-1/2" x 14 (legal).
Under windows, Acrobat reader will scale these to print on 8-1/2" x 11". As far as I can tell there is no way to do something similar in Linux.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how this could be done?
John
Well just after I posted that question I remembered reading that Adobe just released the Reader software for Linux.
I downloaded it and sure enough it has the same features (more or less) as the Windows version, most critically, the "Shrink oversized pages to paper size" while printing.
It doesn't have direct support for CUPS but sending the job to /usr/bin/lp worked perfectly.
So thats your solution for printing PDFs in Linux.
John
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 15:18 -0500, John Lange wrote:
We have a report server which generates PDF files. These reports are 8-1/2" x 14 (legal).
Under windows, Acrobat reader will scale these to print on 8-1/2" x 11". As far as I can tell there is no way to do something similar in Linux.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how this could be done?
John
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 03:18:09PM -0500, John Lange wrote:
We have a report server which generates PDF files. These reports are 8-1/2" x 14 (legal).
Under windows, Acrobat reader will scale these to print on 8-1/2" x 11". As far as I can tell there is no way to do something similar in Linux.
Does anyone have a suggestion on how this could be done?
Have you tried the new version of Acrobat Reader for Linux? I haven't yet, but would guess that it is at least more likely to have recent features in it than the old one.
You might also pursue something like using xpdf to get Postscript files, which can be scaled and optionally tiled with utilities such as a2ps.
Cheers, Tim
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