slightly OT - user-specific postscript config files?

[Cameron Mura]

Hi, problem (below) solved: blasted away my $HOME/.cups directory, 
allowing things to default to /etc/cups/lpoptions, and all is back to 
normal...

=== Cameron Mura wrote (on 11/28/2012 09:39 PM): ===
> Hello,
>
> apologies for this being slightly off-topic (I work in Fedora, so this 
> list occurred to me as one place to ask the question...)
>
> In a nutshell: I'm wondering if anyone could point me to useful 
> resources that describe where user-specific Postscript 
> information/customizations/etc. are stored on a standard, vanilla 
> Fedora installation ?  I really do mean /user-specific/ (not global) 
> preferences here, so I imagine the info/settings probably live 
> somewhere in $HOME/, but my Linux/Fedora print config knowledge has 
> become outdated and quite rusty... I tried some obvious things -- like 
> blasting away the $HOME/.gtklp that exists if one has GtkLP installed 
> (this is a GTK frontend to CUPS) -- but all this was to no avail, my 
> page-scaling problem persists.  I've also searched extensively online 
> for the info (queries like "linux postscript user customization 
> file"), but still can't find anything.
>
> A bit of backstory: Suddenly, any email I print from Thunderbird, by 
> sending to the default print queue, ends up being scaled-down by a 
> factor of ~0.8x, positioned flush-left and flush-bottom on the 
> standard-sized (8.5"x11" letter) paper.  I learned the following from 
> various troubleshooting efforts and tests:
>
>    1. problem is not the printer itself -- e.g., a simplex queue on
>       the same printer works fine (problem is I use duplex)
>    2. problem is not Thunderbird-specific -- I initially thought I
>       must have mung'd a t-bird setting in prefs.js or something like
>       that, but turns out that's not the problem -- interestingly,
>       this scaling problem does /not/ occur if I print a PDF file to
>       the troublesome print queue, but it /does/ occur if I print a
>       postscript file from any postscript-aware app (e.g. okular),
>       which led me to conclude it's some generic postscript config
>       problem...
>    3. problem is not global, but rather is user-specific -- the
>       scaling problem does not occur with another user account on the
>       same machine
>
> >From the above I deduced it's some user-specific Postscript 
> weirdness, and was hoping this could be traced to something in $HOME, 
> but for the life of me I can't get any further.... maybe I'm missing 
> something obvious?!?
>
> ...any tips or pointers to online resources would be greatly appreciated!
> thanks,
> cam

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