New subject: Fwd: Printing problem on boss-linux

30 Dec 2015


      Hi,
In my efforts to push FOSS in schools and colleges, I am distributing 
free and open source softwares in schools and colleges. All projects are 
uploaded on source forge.
However I am facing some printing problem executing JAVA code on 
bosslinux. I usually print output directly on A4 paper and suppress 
print dialog. I wrote the program before I knew BOSS and was working 
nicely on windows. On BOSS, the program executes properly but the 
default output comes on letter size instead of A4. This trims some left, 
right, top and bottom content.
I tried various code snippets to pro grammatically set the paper A4 but 
it does not work. I am using cups-pdf and the pdf print is also having 
the same problem. I thought first that it was a problem specific to boss 
but a friend of mine sent me this.
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[Forwarded from Sanjay Patil]
Yes, see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=88286#c12
The crucial information is the geographical location,
i.e. the second part of a locale name, for example:
en_GB is English for Great Britain => A4 paper
en_US is English for United States => Letter paper
I think that without an existing geographical location
(in particular for "C" or "POSIX") it is just not possible
to set another paper size than what is the default in the PPD.
Or the fallback should be at least "A4" (if avialable in the PPD)
because I think that A4 paper is more often used in the whole world
than Letter.
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Has anybody come across this. Will you please run the following java 
code on any other linux version and let me know how it works or send me 
the pdf output ?  I have already set the default data so just run the 
Java file and press the [Print Attendance] button. You will get 23 page 
document. Only one page will do for testing. pdf output will be best.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hsc-formcreator/
Thanks and regards
Milind