Preview won't print at 100% - huh?
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From: Rowland McDonnell on 8 Mar 2010 17:16 Okay, MacOS X 10.6.2, Preview.app (v5.0.1 (503)). I've got this: <http://www.markthomasinfo.com/zzz_images/CIFcard.pdf> and I'm trying to print it. It comes out as 4 3/8" x 3 3/8" (approx) `card' sized thing if I print it using TeXShop.app. But if I try with Preview.app, I always get something filling the page. Now, I can see `Scale to fit' (which is, annoyingly, seeminly always the default option) telling me it's goint to `Print entire image' and the greyed-out `scale' box contains " 208% " which is (probably) the linear scaling factor required to make the image fill the A4 page from its normal size. If I print like that, I get A4 filled. `Fill entire paper' gives me 230% scaling factor and even more paper filled. So the obvious thing to try is `Scale: 100%'. Yeah? Well, that fills the A4 page too. It ignores the scaling factor I've typed in an uses the one that was there before the user entered his data. Can anyone offer any suggestion on how to threaten Preview.app effectively so as to make it behave? Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Elliott Roper on 8 Mar 2010 18:10 In article <1jf22va.ckog0h4ism63N%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Okay, > > MacOS X 10.6.2, Preview.app (v5.0.1 (503)). > > I've got this: > > <http://www.markthomasinfo.com/zzz_images/CIFcard.pdf> > > and I'm trying to print it. It comes out as 4 3/8" x 3 3/8" (approx) > `card' sized thing if I print it using TeXShop.app. > > But if I try with Preview.app, I always get something filling the page. > > Now, I can see `Scale to fit' (which is, annoyingly, seeminly always the > default option) telling me it's goint to `Print entire image' and the > greyed-out `scale' box contains " 208% " which is (probably) the linear > scaling factor required to make the image fill the A4 page from its > normal size. > > If I print like that, I get A4 filled. > > `Fill entire paper' gives me 230% scaling factor and even more paper > filled. > > So the obvious thing to try is `Scale: 100%'. > > Yeah? > > Well, that fills the A4 page too. It ignores the scaling factor I've > typed in an uses the one that was there before the user entered his > data. > > Can anyone offer any suggestion on how to threaten Preview.app > effectively so as to make it behave? I think it is waiting for you to finish typing 100 Hit tab to exit the scale field before you hit print or return. It looks like UI design bug to me. Check it shrinks in the preview before continuing? -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248
From: Bruce Horrocks on 8 Mar 2010 18:29 On 08/03/2010 22:16, Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Can anyone offer any suggestion on how to threaten Preview.app > effectively so as to make it behave? I think it's a bug as well as I had similar odd problems trying to print photos. Try creating a custom paper size with the dimensions that you want (but still put A4 in the paper tray). Alternatively, given the nature of the thing that you are printing, why not print it on A0 then you can entertaining unfold it in front of the officer when stopped. :-) -- Bruce Horrocks Surrey England (bruce at scorecrow dot com)
From: Rowland McDonnell on 8 Mar 2010 18:53 Elliott Roper <nospam(a)yrl.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: [snip] > > Can anyone offer any suggestion on how to threaten Preview.app > > effectively so as to make it behave? > > I think it is waiting for you to finish typing 100 I did. > Hit tab to exit the scale field before you hit print or return. Oh well, that's totally bloody obvious, that is. Let's see - yup, it works. And oh look, I can have four up printing an' all, handy with this one. Shoot the UI designer, that's all I'm going to say. > It looks like UI design bug to me. > > Check it shrinks in the preview before continuing? It did - previously, I just typed in the number, hit `return' at the end of doing so as you would, and it printed wrongly. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 10 Mar 2010 12:02 Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell wrote: > > Can anyone offer any suggestion on how to threaten Preview.app > > effectively so as to make it behave? > > I think it's a bug as well as I had similar odd problems trying to print > photos. "I think it is waiting for you to finish typing 100 Hit tab to exit the scale field before you hit print or return. It looks like UI design bug to me. Check it shrinks in the preview before continuing?" said ER. > Try creating a custom paper size with the dimensions that you want (but > still put A4 in the paper tray). No. > Alternatively, given the nature of the thing that you are printing, why > not print it on A0 then you can entertaining unfold it in front of the > officer when stopped. :-) Yers... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
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