[cups.general] Landscape Mode Ignored from OSX Leopard Client to Linux CUPS Server (1.3.7)

[Michael R Sweet]

Paul Ortman wrote:
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> I have a centralized linux (gentoo) CUPS server (recently upgraded
> to 1.3.7) at my institution that acts as both a pure cups browsing
> server and samba server.  Our OSX clients (10.5.4) reach the server
> by cups browsing (not using Samba).
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> I'm seeing significant problems when OSX clients attempt to print
> pretty much anything in landscape mode iff it's going through
> Preview.  However, those same print jobs, saved to PDF and then
> opened with Acrobat 8, print fine.  Likewise, directly printing on
> the command line with lpr somefile.pdf also produces the expected
> output.  I don't know if this is similar to STR #2850 and STR #2881,
> but it might be.

This is STR #2881.  In short, it is a bug/interaction between Xpdf
and pstops that is causing the problem.  We do not have a fix yet.

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer