Printing in Linux

[Peter Alcibiades]

Here is what happened.

I changed the distribution that an application is running on from Mandriva
to Debian.  Because revPrintField doesn't work properly, it resorted to
getting prints out by using print card.  After the change in distribution,
print card worked, but it did not print the card in the same way as before,
it didn't print into the correct area.  This is probably something to do
with the screen resolution.

So, wishing to resolve this at leisure, I took it home and tinkered,
intending to use cups-pdf as the printer. The first thing to do was set
cups-pdf as the default printer. Then to work.  

The print card command, and this is with a card with a few simple text
fields, was timed at 1 minute 20 seconds to print to the file.  The file
appeared to go into a black hole.  cups-pdf is set up to print into a folder
called PDF in the home directory.  Nothing appeared there.  Tried other
applications.  They all now printed to /home/user/PDF without fuss.

Checking the available printers in Rev revealed the ones that are installed,
including cups-pdf, and one that is not, namely PDF.  Change the printerName
to PDF, and the print files do now arrive in the /home/userPDF directory.  

This is very reminiscent of the font situation:  fonts which are not
installed are listed, and fonts which are installed appear to be
unavailable.  Where does it get this printer from?  And what would happen if
you changed the cups-pdf configuration files to use some other directory? 
Life is too short. It still takes the same amount of time to print.

Now at least we can start tinkering with the print card into command. 
Whereas before print card into 100,100,800,600 had worked, now on one card
what was needed was 0,20,600,400 and on another 0,10,800,600.  I have no
idea why.  

When doing all this stuff, it would help to be able to read the dictionary,
but it is in unchangeable 4 point font.  Never mind, one can use a large
magnifying glass.  Which I do, believe it or not.

This by the way is still using 3.5.  Tried to use 4.0, and it would not
allow any editing of the app.  No idea why.  Lets hope that 4.5 improves
things. 
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