Landscape printing: OS X to linux CUPS server

Helge Blischke h.blischke at srz.de
Sun Apr 9 08:39:17 PDT 2006


Philip Crewdson wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying desperately to print landscape documents from my Mac and nothing I do has made any difference whatsoever.
> 
> The problem (as discussed previously) seems to be that when printing from applications (but not from lpr) MacOS 10.4 draws the page so that it will print in Portrait orientation, and then sends the magic "orientation-requested=4" flag, which causes CUPS to rotate it again.
> 
> http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.general+v:23496
> http://www.cups.org/newsgroups.php?gcups.bugs+v:2032
> 
> The only thing I can think of that we may not have done is install the CUPS version of pdftops. So is this really the magic wand that will fix the issue, or is there something blindingly obvious that I'm missing? It just seems incredible that it should be so hard to do something so many people would want to do.
> 
> Any Mac users out there want to make me look stupid?
> 
> Philip

There are known issues with a couple pf print job attributes that - in certain configurations - get
evaluated twice: once sent to the IPP server as part of the IPP request, and a second time in the
CUPS server's filter chain by the pstops filter. 
To decide if your issue falls into this category, please post an URL to both the PDF and the
output of the pdftops filter you use.

Helge

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