Landscape printing: OS X to linux CUPS server

[Philip Crewdson]

Hi Helge,

Thanks for offering to help with this.

I've put up a simple pdf, saved out of the Mac print dialogue, along with the log output (in debug mode) from both my machine and the server in two scenarios:
1) using lpr on my machine to print the file, which works fine, and
2) printing the file out of the print dialogue in the application (it's the same for all applications), which does the extra rotation.

The pdf is here: http://state51.co.uk/philip/cups/printertest.pdf

The log entries for the lpr print are here:
server log: http://state51.co.uk/philip/cups/server_log_lpr.txt
client log: http://state51.co.uk/philip/cups/client_log_lpr.txt

and the log entries for the print from the application are here:
server log: http://state51.co.uk/philip/cups/server_log_app.txt
client log: http://state51.co.uk/philip/cups/client_log_app.txt

Thanks again,

Philip


> 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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