[ale] OT: Weird printing in Adobe on Fedora

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Scott Castaline wrote:
>   Any ideas as to why this happens? I had tried this on FC6 and had
> gotten the same results as printing directly from Adobe, even though the 
> ps viewer had shown the file as normal, it would shrink each page when 
> it went to the printer. It's a little bit of a PIA but I can live with 
> it if I have to. The only thing that I can think of is possibly a memory 
> issue, but I don't really see how as the file gets converted to ps and 
> put on the disk before spooling to printer, essentially the same as 
> printing to file and then printing that file? At least I think that's 
> how CUPs works. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure of the CUPS internals, but supposedly postcript is being 
(has been? the article's 2006) replaced by pdf for print spooling.

http://www.linux.com/articles/53732

-Brian