Bug 1298

Summary:	RFE: PostScript DDX should scale print job to match a page resolution supported by the printer
Product:	xprint	Reporter:	Roland Mainz <roland.mainz>
Component:	Server: DDX: PostScript	Assignee:	Roland Mainz <roland.mainz>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	high	CC:	jay.hobson, MostAwesomedude
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Roland Mainz 2004-09-06 16:39:35 UTC

RFE: PostScript DDX should scale print job to match a page resolution supported
by the printer.

The X specs makes it mandatory that an application must be able to access single
pixels via it's absolute coodinates and that's why Xprint allows an application
to select the "resolution" of a print job (Windows GDI and MacOSX's print API
have a similar setting (which is usually hidden under "Quality settings")).

Unfortunately there is a bug in the PostScript DDX which causes problems with
some printers when the printer (for example) only supports 600DPI and the print
job uses 300DPI... in theory the page should be scaled-up by the printer then...
but something is missing right now which causes some printers to skip the
scaling.

The question is now: How can we "convince" the other printers to do the scaling
to a supported page resolution, too ?

Comment 1 Corbin Simpson 2011-09-13 14:03:20 UTC

Closing WONTFIX because nobody cares about Xprint. Reopen if you plan to address this bug.

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