[cups.general] MacOSX landscape problems with pdftops

[Paul Ortman]

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Helge Blischke wrote:
> Did you check the pdftops.conf has the 
> 	psPaperSize match
> correctly set?

I believe so.  In Gentoo they symlink the pdftops.conf file to one in
/etc/xpdfrc, and it looks little like the one I downloaded from the cups
website.  I moved over the configs that seemed to make sense to me.  It
is attached in case you are curious.  Every thing below the first
comment (line 22) is what I added from your example file.

> All three print OK, but note that you MUST NOT specify any landscape
> option in the print command. It may be that your application(s) do
> both - creating a real landscape PDF and then instructing CUPS to
> fake landscape printing (that is what the landscape option does).
This is what I suspected was happening.  Amoungst all the properties
that are spewed to the server when printing from an OS X box, the
PMOrientation property seems to be set to the opposite of what it should be.

> To be sure, grab the corresponding cxxxx file from the CUPS server, which
> contains all the job attributes.

I've solved my problems (I think) by using the official pdftops filter
that comes with the cups source (but is not included in a Gentoo build).
 So I won't do any more followup, unless it might be useful for you.
Let me know.

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