How do I print a file from the command line at the correct size...

[Pastcal]

<saga> Yes, me again with the medical image scanner. This time, I'm trying to print the images from the command line. The images are available as pdf files and when printed from a pdf viewer come out correctly, but when printed from the command line, using lp the images are too large. I tried using the command line switch -o media=a4 [1]but the result was identical. How can I resize the image to shrink it to the size of the paper in the way that image viewers do? Thanks </saga>

[1] $ lp -o media=a4 -d HL-L2300D autoprint.pdf

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Check
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-un ... -size.html

You can also try print with libreoffice, but I don't see option to resize
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en- ... eters.html

[Shiva]

The images are available as pdf files and when printed from a pdf viewer come out correctly, but when printed from the command line, using lp the images are too large.

Did you try to leave the formatting job to the pdf viewer before sending it to lp through a pipe ?
Example with Xreader, the LM default document viewer :

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xreader -i 2 -s "./document.pdf"

opens "document.pdf" from the current working directory, on page 2 in presentation mode according to xreader man page.

So, I would certainly give a try to :

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xreader -i 2 -s "./document.pdf" | lp

to print it from command line