Inkscape -Printing issues

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I recently loaded Inkscape on my 11.3/kde4.6 system.
I have Inkscape 0.48 loaded, had same issues with 0.47.

Program functionality is fine, except for printing.

When attempting output to either a laser or inkjet, the output has excessive margins and appears to be formatted for A4, not letter. The print drivers are set for US-letter.

I have seen references to Inkscape using gtk-printing or gnome-printing. I do not see packages with this specific naming available via yast.

The printers work fine from GIMP, OpenOffice, etc.

I also have loaded Inkscape to Win32 box, open file from 11.3 box, and have similar issues, margins seem set to large offsets, but there is no place in the page setup to set margins.

My solution so far has been to save to PDF, then print from Ocular, which does work, just cumbersome.

Any better solutions out there?

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Read this YaST Printer - openSUSE

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Thanks, I have Yast-Printer installed but it is no help here.

What I observe is Inkscape telling the driver (in my case TurboPrint) that the Page size is A4, even though in Inkscape Document Properties the Page Size is set to US-Letter. TurboPrint has a “Printer Monitor” window that displays current settings.
When I print from Open Office, the Printer Monitor displays Page Size = US Letter and it prints OK…

So I suspect the issue is within Inkscape, I can find no other references to Page size other than “Document Properties” and that isn’t working.
I’ll talk to the Inkscape forum for a while.