How to print A4 PDF?

[Member Andy3142]

How do I print an A4 PDF please?

The menu offers qpdfview and mupdf. qpdfview seems to not understand either millimeters or A4 size. I can select A4 paper size, but the measurements remain as foolscap and in inches. Printing is garbled by the mismatch between A4 paper and foolscap printing.

Mupdf opens the pdf, but there is no way to scroll the window to see the whole page, and no menu of any kind to print from.

I’m new to Linux so I don’t know what other app to use, or how to set it as default.

Many thanks

Andy

[Member PPC]

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Hi, and welcome to Linux, I guess 🙂
First- don’t panic – there’s a solution for every problem:

1- mupdf unfortunately is only a file viewer, it does not allow printing
2- qpdfview is a more fully featured program – I’ve been using it to print pdf’s for years, and I use A4 printers… Try this:
-In qpdfview go to the menu File > Print > “Proprieties” button > In my case the first field is already in millimetres and the paper size set to A4. Try clicking the first field and check if you can select millimetres…

Other options – you can open, view pdf files and even enter data in pdf forms on most modern web browsers – try dragging and dropping your pdf to a firefox-esr or firefox window (or any modern browser, like Chromium, Chrome, Brave, etc) and then click the “printer” button on the upper right corner- see if you can print correctly to A4 from there.

P.

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[Member ModdIt]

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Hi Andy+ One area which is slightly complicated is papersize. Unfortunately there is no single set and forget
switch, considering the amount of non US letter size users not ideal.

Please use control center, hardware, printer settings, click on the icon for your printer then printer options
set default papersize to A4.
Should that not stick which has happened to me, please ask then we can set defaults using the cups interface on
http://localhost:631/printers/ with admin rights.

Using editor of your choice started with sudo Set /etc/papersize to a4 standard is US=letter

For working with PDF, I prefer MasterPdfEditor, The last free version 4.3 will still install and works
perfectly on antiX 21, Creating, editing filling out PDF documents. I just set not to check for updates in settings.
The newer non free versions can be used but will add a watermark in some circumstances.

In home/yourusername/.config/qpdfview
you have a print dialog setting, not sure if it will help but set fit to page to true. default is as below.
fitToPage=false

If you use LibreOffice to prepare a document then print to PDF you will have a document in US letter size.
LO Writer needs creation of a document template in A4 which must be made default to tame it.
As far as I am aware the same still goes for calc, draw etc.

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[Member Andy3142]

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Thank you both. I tried dragging the file into Firefox and that worked perfectly so that’s a good solution for me.

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