[cups.general] MacOSX landscape problems with pdftops

[Michael Sweet]

Paul Ortman wrote:
> ...
>   Obviously, [3] is a PDF v1.3 and [4] is a PS 3.0 document.  It appears
>   to me that my version of CUPS already comes with the "alternate
>   pdftops" perl script that acts as a wrapper around xpdf (as described
>   in [6], which is the best information/workaround I was able to find on
>   the lists.

Right, that that version of the pdftops filter does not support
automatic landscape rotation properly - the standard CUPS version
does...

>   Is there some configuration on the MacOSX clients that I could do to
>   force them to decode all files to PS 3.0 instead of PDF before sending
>   them over to the CUPS server?  Even better would be a fix I can put on
>   the server side which would make all the problems disappear.

Use the CUPS-provided pdftops filter instead.

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