[Printing] White-margins problem

[twipley]

Printing a PDF file through the Evince document viewer may by default add white margins both on top and bottom and on both sides, especially if the PDF file has been created through the LibreOffice PDF-file export.

One method to fix this issue -- and it seems to work for all cases in which a PDF file gets printed with too-wide margins, whether having or not been outputted through LibreOffice -- is to enable "select page size using document page size" by default.

That way, it seems to me, PDF files would get printed the way they really were intended to be printed.

For reference, the suggestion has been made to http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28971 in the prior.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: linux-image-3.0.0-14-generic 3.0.0-14.23
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 1: DX [Xonar DX], device 0: Multichannel [Multichannel]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC1: stephane 1568 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC0: stephane 1568 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfeafc000 irq 17'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia GPU 15 HDMI/DP'
   Components : 'HDA:10de0015,10de0101,00100100'
   Controls : 16
   Simple ctrls : 4
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'DX'/'Asus Virtuoso 100 at 0xe800, irq 18'
   Mixer name : 'AV200'
   Components : 'CS4398 CS4362A CS5361 AV200'
   Controls : 18
   Simple ctrls : 11
Date: Wed Dec 14 11:05:38 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-14-generic root=UUID=5ff2556f-bf26-4108-8a50-ef2f0159a986 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
 linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-14-generic N/A
 linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-14-generic N/A
 linux-firmware 1.60
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 08/04/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 0602
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: P5Q PRO TURBO
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr0602:bd08/04/2009:svnSystemmanufacturer:pnSystemProductName:pvrSystemVersion:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rnP5QPROTURBO:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
dmi.product.name: System Product Name
dmi.product.version: System Version
dmi.sys.vendor: System manufacturer

[twipley (smt-infp)]

Actually, this report may be a duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/551480

[twipley (smt-infp)]

I revert what I said just above: this bug report is no duplicate at all.

The proportion of space margins take upon printing is just too large -- margins are not intended to be _that_ wide.

Anyone else suffering from the same issue, needing to enable "select page size using document page size" ?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

twipley, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Oneiric reached EOL on May 9, 2013.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue on a supported release? If so, please reopen this report, attach a document this is reproducible with, and execute the following at a terminal as it will automatically gather debugging information:
apport-collect 904323