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Document that gets Margin issues for me.

If I open this document on the Linux LibreOffice it works fine. Only the OS X versions have problems for me.

Unfortunately, I have no way to test this, as I'm in Europe where A4 is the default paper size. If I try to print out your document to my HP networked laser printer, I get asked to insert Letter sized paper in tray 2. As I don't have any Letter sized paper, I of course inserted A4, which then proceeds to print the 3 pages of the document as they appear on screen with LibreOffice, so no repro for me, but the test conditions aren't those that you have.

Version: 5.2.3.3
Build ID: d54a8868f08a7b39642414cf2c8ef2f228f780cf
Threads CPU : 2; Version de l'OS :Mac OS X 10.12.1; UI Render : par défaut; 
Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group

Changed title, as after looking at your screenshot, I see that you mean that the print dialog preview, is the one that gets printed, and not the page as it displays in Writer.

Could you also provide a screenshot of "Print Preview" in the File menu within LibreOffice to compare with that provided by the CUPS print dialog ?

Setting to NEEDINFO.

Additionally, LO 5162 is EOL (November 27, 2016).

Please upgrade to a current release of LO 5.2, retest and report back your findings.

Also note that the release of LO 5162 unfortunately introduced some other nasty regressions which won't be fixed.

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I updated my LibreOffice to Version: 5.2.3.3. It didn't fix it.

If you follow the 3 setup steps in my attachment you might be able to replicate my problem.

Created attachment 129195 [details]
Print Preview looks fine. However.

but once I click print it brings up the windows again with the faulty document preview.

Alright!, I didn't know the Print Dialog window I got was because I was using a CUPs print server. I was getting worried they removed some functionality for sake of simplicity. 

Is there a way to get the main printer dialog windows to be used instead of the CUPS one? On my other OS X machine if I removed all my printers it seemed to fix it. On my MacBook I have a few printers I don't really want to have to re-add.

I found out I could get the LibreOffice Printer Dialog box by running this command into terminal.

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist

If you want your printers back then run 

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.cups.cupsd.plist


I was able to replicate this bug on 3 OS X devices. 

Another strange things is after I unloaded and loaded the the Daemons the print out was only 1/8 inch off instead of 5/16 of an inch off. 

I will add that Microsoft Word 2016 15.19.1 has no problems printing. It even opens up the same printer dialog box. the preview doesn't have any problems as well as the physical printed copy. 

All my problems seem to be fixed as long as I have A4 set as my default paper size. Having A4 set as default doesn’t seem to effect the few programs I’ve tested. Word, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, AutoCAD, Chrome printing. So it’s fine as a temporary fix. 

I will say that it may be hard to notice the subtle differences as I’ve had it range from 1/8-5/16th of an inch. 3mm to 8mm for metric. I would use a ruler to make sure. 

I’m hoping someone else can replicate this. If not I’ll have to point it to something with my home printer/cups server. Although LibreOffice on Linux and Windows print just fine with no issues.

Thanks Ben for all the information and updates.

Re CUPS printing dialog : unfortunately, LibreOffice uses this systematically, and I suspect that therein lies the underlying problem. A conscious decision was made to switch entirely to the CUPS subsystem for printing on Mac and Linux rather than the lpd interface that used to exist. You might even be able to find in earlier versions of LibreOffice a tool called "spadmin". This tool was removed from the app bundles (I don't know why) for OSX to rely only on the OSX-provided CUPS subsystem, albeit as a subset of the complete functionality as far as I'm aware (in other words, a simplified UI dialog when displayed from within LO). At some stage, further code changes caused the CUPS subsystem print dialog to print Letter-sized pages with an offset on the Mac.

So, I'm pretty sure that this is a DUPLICATE of already reported behaviour, but I will have to trawl through the bug database to try and find something. As I know that this has been reported before, at least on the user mailing list, I'm going to set this report to NEW for the time being.

Bug 81065 seems to be a fairly good summary of the various bugs affecting CUPS printing with Letter-sized paper on multiple OSes.

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