Landscape printing with cupsPrintFile()

[CharlieB]

Helge Blischke wrote:
> CharlieB wrote:
> >

> > I know about the option structure. I am looking for the name of the option and its value to print in landscape format. I was thinking these would be standard strings. Something like name = "orientation" and value = "landscape" or "portrait"?
>
> The option is simply "landscape", but "landscape=yes" should also
> be accepted.
>
> Don't play with the orientation. There is a discussion going on on
> the semantics of the orientation - the PPD spec states that orientation
> refers to the media feeding direction, in contrast to the common
> interpretation of the logical page to the physical page.
>
> Helge
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Thanks for the help Helde. I found out later I am more confused on this than I thought. I previewed the PostScript file I made in Ghostview using the %%Orientation: landscape comment and it shows the page on it's side. However I just realized that the text is on it's side also, still in portrait format. I am looking into PostScript commands to rotate the text. Hopefully this will be easy to do.

Thanks again.