Tag: postscript

Scaling the PDF print

The default printer driver used with the Bullzip PDF Printer does not support scaling of the printed content. If you want to scale the output, you should replace the used driver with a driver that supports scaling.

The HP Universal Printing PS driver supports scaling and can be used with the Bullzip PDF Printer.

After installing the HP Universal Printing PS driver, you can switch the driver in the Windows dialog for advanced properties for the printer.

Changing the driver will also change the name of the printer. Make sure you go back to the general tab and change the name back before you press OK.

Next time you print to the printer, the Windows printing dialog will bring up the driver specific dialog with the HP features. Click More settings when you print to open the driver extra features.

Under More settings, you can change the scaling.

Google Chrome 80 PostScript Error

There is a problem with Chrome 80 and the PostScript passthrough. The bug is confirmed by Google and they are trying to fix it.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1030689

The PDF printer version 11.12 contains a fix/workaround for this problem. This means that if you see the following error when printing to PDF then you just upgrade to the newest version.

%%[ ProductName: GPL Ghostscript ]%%
%%[Page: 1]%%%%[Page: 2]%%
%%[ Error: typecheck; OffendingCommand: setlinecap ]%%

If you are interested then you can check this link to see the actual fix that the next version of Chrome will have.

https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/+/f201c7389829371dcf2bbcc58b38a1910b5856e6%5E%21/#F0

One of our users also reported having seen this problem with the Firefox browser. However, this is not confirmed.