Posts tagged "linux"
Show Your Working: Forcing Linux to print at actual size
Fri 19 May 2023
One day I decided I've had enough of computers and wanted to do literally anything else. Specifically, in that moment I wanted to print out some sewing patterns. Here is a 100mm test square I printed on my printer. Except it's only 94mm. 94mm!!!
Not going to lie, searching the internet for useful information has become real bleak lately. There's plenty of advice floating around to "Open the PDF in Acrobat and select "Actual size" when printing", but no advice about the Linux equivalent. To be honest the coward's way out would be to dig out the sacrificial Windows laptop, find a print driver and use Acrobat Reader, but I figured other people might like to know how to fix it, so here you go!