Why Can't I Print Full Size?

[ehbowen]

Was having fun this evening re-imagining your layout. Use them if you like.

I used a couple of your ideas. May incorporate others next week. Here's this week's final PDF. Unfortunately, I once again had to transfer the Scribus layout to LibreOffice Draw and "tweak" it to get it to output properly. I tried about fifteen different combinations of printer settings before throwing in the towel in Scribus.

Should this count as a "bug" worthy of reporting, or at least an official feature request?

[utnik]

...Should this count as a "bug" worthy of reporting, or at least an official feature request?

hard to tell – as long as we don't see what scribus does wrong.
your presented file looks almost correct. but there's still am offset of 1/32" from the folding line to the middle of the page. if it's just that what you 'tweak' by libreoffice, you should work with a central guide to resolve it.

how would you describe a bug?
what feature would you like to have?

utnik

[ehbowen]

...Should this count as a "bug" worthy of reporting, or at least an official feature request?

hard to tell – as long as we don't see what scribus does wrong.
your presented file looks almost correct. but there's still am offset of 1/32" from the folding line to the middle of the page. if it's just that what you 'tweak' by libreoffice, you should work with a central guide to resolve it.

how would you describe a bug?
what feature would you like to have?

utnik

I'm afraid I'm not enough of a techie to really suggest what to do, although perhaps they might consider adapting another open-source print engine. If I take the PDF created by Scribus and try to print it with a PDF viewer, or to print directly from Scribus, the output comes out about 70%. But if I put that same PDF into LibreOffice Draw and print it from there, even without editing, it comes out the correct full size. My current workaround.

[utnik]

...perhaps they might consider adapting another open-source print engine. If I take the PDF created by Scribus and try to print it with a PDF viewer, or to print directly from Scribus, the output comes out about 70%.

forget about printing direct from the .sla file! but your .pdf file shows the correct size. when this doesn't print do it's size, it's not scribus' fault. in this case, there's no scribus related print engine involved.

utnik