landscape printing in Mac OS X

Harold R. Grove rgrove at msad56.org
Thu Mar 22 07:31:03 PDT 2007


> Harold R. Grove wrote:
> > I have tried to use debian stable (alpha and i386), debian testing, and fedora core 6 as a CUPS print server in a small school (serving ~50 networked printers), and none of my OS X clients seem to be able to print in landscape mode correctly.  The cups server versions are 1.1.23, 1.2.4, and 1.2.7. In OS X, a landscaped job will come out in portrait mode, but rotated again.  iphoto 5.0.4 is the only app that I've come across that will print in landscape mode. Windows and all flavors of linux work fine. Any help is greatly appreciated !
>
> This is an issue with the non-standard PDF filter used on Debian; I
> don't know if Fedora uses the pdftops that comes with the standard
> CUPS distribution or not.
>
> CUPS 1.2.8 includes a fix specifically addressing landscape printing
> from OS X clients; again, you need to use the pdftops that comes with
> CUPS (and not the script wrapper around the Xpdf pdftops program) to
> get the proper output...
>
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> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com

Thanks!...compiling from source did the job.




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