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Re: Printing with Mutt



* Rem P Roberti <remegius@xxxxxxxxxxx> [01-29-09 00:06]:
> I have a laser printer installed on my FreeBSD system which I installed
> via cups, and the printer works fine.  However, when I print a message
> from within Mutt the left margin is only about 3/16" and a couple of
> characters are always missing from the beginning of all lines.  

You need to set the margins via your printer software, cups.  I do not
know FreeBSD, but try:
  localhost:631 
in your browser of choice.  

> The printer defaults to letter size paper and, as I said, it prints
> fine from all other applications.  Is there a way to control how Mutt
> formats a page for printing?

afaik, mutt does not "format" for printing, but there is a utility
that prettifies email for printing, muttprint.  I like it.

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