[X2go-User] Problems setting print system in x2go [Resolved]

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 10:28 +0200, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> Hi Mario,
> 
> On Do 25 Aug 2011 18:53:48 CEST Mario OROZ wrote:
> 
> > /usr/bin/margin-offset.ps is a postscript to add margins to the print job.
> 
> Could you shortly explain where this file comes from, and what it  
> looks like etc. I did an apt-file search on a Debian squeeze system  
> and could not find this file.
> 
> You say it adds margin... Why do we want that. What will happen to the  
> print area (scaled shrinking?)...
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That's interesting.  We have had a corner case where this is a problem.
There are some applications (e.g., Timberline check printing) which seem
to query to the printer directly for margins.  We could not print checks
via the X2Go local printer because it returns margins of 0,0,0,0.  The
client was forced to print to a different network-enabled printer
accessible via VPN so that that it could be interrogated for its margins
in order to print checks.

I am guessing the X2Go printer returns 0,0,0,0 because it does not know
what the margins of the printer are until a destination printer is
selected - John