Printing in Landscape on Mac OS X

[Ben Pirt]

Hi All,

I have just spent a bit of time setting up a CUPS server to service a mixed office of macs and PCs. I was using the automatic discovery feature which was working really nicely until I tried to print out a landscape document and it tried to print it portrait, cutting off the right hand side of the document.

I have spent quite some time looking through the forums and have found a few other people with this problem, but no solutions (at least none that work for me)


Details of the problem:

I am running the latest version of CUPS (1.2.2) and as far as I can tell am using the built in filters, not the xpdf ones. The OS is Fedora Core 5

The problem only occurs with mac os x

The problem only occurs when I use automatic discovery, if I add the printer manually, it works perfectly. Sadly this means we have to set up each client ourselves.

The problem happens regardless of the document being printed or the program being used to print.


Any ideas about how to solve this would be very much appreciated. It's a real shame not to be able to use automatic discovery.

All the best,

Ben Pirt