I would like to add custom page sizes to my printer’s .ppd (PostScript printer definition) file. What do I have to add to get a new page size working properly?
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I would like to add custom page sizes to my printer’s .ppd (PostScript printer definition) file. What do I have to add to get a new page size working properly?
I have a Samsung printer so I downloaded the source code to the SpliX drivers. The driver source includes a Makefile to compile .ppd from sources that list the available page sizes much more succinctly. Now that missing paper size shows up in the print dialog’s options.
(That did not solve my problem printing onto small paper. My real problem with custom paper sizes likely has something to do with the way applications talk to cups and the switch from .ps to .pdf as the preferred page input to cups in Ubuntu 9.04…)