Since quite some time, I printed something directly out of Inkscape. I'm thus not sure since when this happens; I never actively changed some configuration about this though. The output was way too small, ca. an A6 sheet when it should have been A4. I see this using my Gentoo Linux desktop machine and my Artix Linux notebook, both running Plasma 6.
First thing I did was moving ~/.config/inkscape to try it with a clean profile. Same result.
So I played around a bit. When I export the document to PDF and print it with Okular, the size is okay. When I print it directly, a 10 cm square is 4,8 cm wide and high. I tested this with two printers, one of them by using a Brother-specific driver and printing driverless (with IP Everywhere). Same result in all cases.
I thought this could be an upstream bug. But nobody reported it (and I'm for sure not the only guy printing something with Inkscape, am I?!). So I tried two virtual QEMU machines:
With LUbuntu 22 (obiously not running Plasma 6, but LxQt), the printing worked as expected. So I thought this could be a Plasma 6 issue.
To be sure, I also tried current OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Also running Plasma 6. But there, printing worked as expected …
This is odd. What can cause this? Where can I even start to debug this?! Thanks for all help!
Using Inkscape with Other Programs Inkscape prints way too small
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Hi all!
Since quite some time, I printed something directly out of Inkscape. I'm thus not sure since when this happens; I never actively changed some configuration about this though. The output was way too small, ca. an A6 sheet when it should have been A4. I see this using my Gentoo Linux desktop machine and my Artix Linux notebook, both running Plasma 6.
First thing I did was moving ~/.config/inkscape to try it with a clean profile. Same result.
So I played around a bit. When I export the document to PDF and print it with Okular, the size is okay. When I print it directly, a 10 cm square is 4,8 cm wide and high. I tested this with two printers, one of them by using a Brother-specific driver and printing driverless (with IP Everywhere). Same result in all cases.
I thought this could be an upstream bug. But nobody reported it (and I'm for sure not the only guy printing something with Inkscape, am I?!). So I tried two virtual QEMU machines:
With LUbuntu 22 (obiously not running Plasma 6, but LxQt), the printing worked as expected. So I thought this could be a Plasma 6 issue.
To be sure, I also tried current OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Also running Plasma 6. But there, printing worked as expected …
This is odd. What can cause this? Where can I even start to debug this?! Thanks for all help!
Okay, I found it. This is a problem with xdg-desktop-portal. I reported this at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492681