Has anyone had this problem, even tho you change settings to print Landscape it will only print in Portrait
There is a Bug report, I assume on this problem and they said they would test the problem in Fedora 19, does this mean we will not see a fix in Fedora 18 ? we will have to wait 6 months or longer till Fedora 19 comes out, I hope not . https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907364
Has anyone had this problem, even tho you change settings to print Landscape it will only print in Portrait
There is a Bug report, I assume on this problem and they said they would test the problem in Fedora 19, does this mean we will not see a fix in Fedora 18 ? we will have to wait 6 months or longer till Fedora 19 comes out, I hope not .
I'm running F18 on three machines; I have no problems specifying landscape vs portrait. I just tried printing from gedit, google-chrome, and gthumb. In each case I changed the specification from Portrait to Landscape, and the item was printed in Landscape.
Also, in the last week, I've used enscript from the command-line, and have printed in both landscape and portrait.
Rather that look at this at the OS release level, I would troubleshoot this by looking at your printer(s) setup(s); are you specifying the correct printer (or one very close to the one) that fails to print in Landscape when specified?
My printer is an HP 3010 sitting on the LAN. I set it up using the XFce GUI: Applications Menu-> Administration -> Printer Settings.
A few earlier releases ago, I used to have guts and set my printers up from the command-line, vi'ing the configuration files, and then restarting the cups service. I guess that I've gotten lazy.
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Max Pyziur pyz@brama.com
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=907364
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On 01.04.2013, Jim wrote:
Has anyone had this problem, even tho you change settings to print Landscape it will only print in Portrait
My Fedora installation prints fine in both modes.
BUT: can it be that you are using Libreoffice? That seems to be a long standing but, and you have to go to "properties -> device" in the printer settings dialog and set the "printer language type" from "PDF" to "Postscript" to get this to work.
On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 09:18 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
BUT: can it be that you are using Libreoffice? That seems to be a long standing but, and you have to go to "properties -> device" in the printer settings dialog and set the "printer language type" from "PDF" to "Postscript" to get this to work.
Wouldn't that be a print-to-file, rather than print-on-paper, issue?
If being unable to print in landscape is an application problem, that's often down to trying to do it in the wrong way. e.g. With a word processor, the page formatting settings determine landscape or portrait printing, not the printer settings. Likewise with graphics programs, though aspect ratio tending to be automatic determination. The printer will print the page in the aspect that the page is actually laid out, automatically, rather than squeeze or stretch the picture along the page to print the wrong way around, unless deliberate steps are taken regarding stretching.
By way of illustrative example, if the large rectangle represents the paper, and the asterisks what is going to be printed on the page, printing like this tends to be avoided by software:
+--------------------------------+ | ****** | | ****** | | ****** | | ****** | | ****** | +--------------------------------+
You have to go out of your way to print in the aspect and orientation that you want.
On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 08:48:43PM +1030, Tim wrote:
By way of illustrative example, if the large rectangle represents the paper, and the asterisks what is going to be printed on the page, printing like this tends to be avoided by software:
+--------------------------------+ | ****** | | ****** | | ****** | | ****** | | ****** | +--------------------------------+
You have to go out of your way to print in the aspect and orientation that you want.
How about when the image being printed has an aspect ratio compatible with landscape but the resolution is small enough that it fits to portrait with ease? Recently when I printed a web comic for my office door, I had to explicitly choose landscape and stretch/shrink to fit to get something like this:
+-----------------+ | | | ************* | | ************* | | ************* | | | +-----------------+
On 01.04.2013, Tim wrote:
On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 09:18 +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote:
BUT: can it be that you are using Libreoffice? That seems to be a long standing but, and you have to go to "properties -> device" in the printer settings dialog and set the "printer language type" from "PDF" to "Postscript" to get this to work.
Wouldn't that be a print-to-file, rather than print-on-paper, issue?
No, it's a common printout on paper which is affected. It's easy to reproduce with a fully updated F17 (and as far as I know, it's the same on F18):
1. Open Libreoffice Writer 2. Open a new document in landscape format 3. Write a few words 4. Klick on "print"
The result will be in portrait format, unless you switch the "printer language type" to postscript, and not to PDF (which is the standard).
There's a lot of documentation on this one on the net, e.g. here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120368
In KDE.
Goto /Menu/Administration /Printer Settings/Properties/Job options # Job Options in left column, and Orientation:in # Landscape (90 degrees) and check box "Scale to fit" and Apply. .
On 04/01/2013 01:08 PM, Jim wrote:
In KDE.
Goto /Menu/Administration /Printer Settings/Properties/Job options # Job Options in left column, and Orientation:in # Landscape (90 degrees) and check box "Scale to fit" and Apply. .
This setting above worked okay for printing pictures in Landscape and such, But it won't work in Libreoffice, even if you do the settings in Properties to Landscape and paper size.
Does anyone have any Ideal what the problem is with Libreoffice ?
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