Landscape Printing Broken on MacOSX

Hugh Caley hcaley at plasmabat.com
Fri Mar 18 11:28:41 PST 2005


Helge, here is an example of the landscape problem on MacOSX.

http://loomer.com/landscape-d03751-001

Thanks,

Hugh

> Hugh Caley wrote:
> >
> > > Hugh Caley wrote:
> > > >
> > > > When I set up my MacOSX machines to get our printer list from the CUPS server automatically (with the ServerName and BrowsePoll settings) they can print, but not in landscape mode.  If I manually set up the printers they work fine (using lpd).
> > > >
> > > > CUPS version is 1.1.17 on RedHat 8.  MacOSX version is 10.3.8.
> > >
> > > Post (an URL to) a sample file that does not print as expected.
> > >
> > > Helge
> >
> > Hi, Helge.  No particular page; I just fire up Safari, Firefox or TextEdit on MacOSX and attempt to print landscape to a printer on the CUPS server; it always comes out portrait.  The margins are also wrong (the text disappears into the right margin) so I'm guessing that the page orientation command isn't working, but the actual formatting is OK?  I notice that the "Preview" seems to look good but prints portrait as well.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
>
> I cannot nail dows the issue until I can have a look into a sample
> (because
> PostScript is a progamming language and there are many ways to do
> landscape
> printing right or wrong).
> To generate a sample, you may stop the printer (via lpadmin or the CUPS
> web interface), print something as usual, and then save the "dnnnnn"
> (where nnnnn is the CUPS jub number) file out of the CUPS spool
> directory to a safe location and post (an URL to) that.
>
> Helge
>
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