landscape printing problem - addendum

[Christoph Litauer]

Am 11.12.09 11:55, schrieb Helge Blischke:
> Christoph Litauer wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Just for fun, I edited one of my printer's PPD to include a specification of 
> a "landscape oriented" media size (named A4transverse) - and whow! - when I 
> selected this media sizein the print dialog, without specifying landscape 
> orientation, everything is OK without quiks and whistles.
> 
> It is a bit tedious do do such modifications, as the respective 
> modifications need to be done in the localization part(s) of the PPD as 
> well, at least for the language the Mac OS X is configured to use.
> 
> With modifications like this, the alternate pdftops filter can be used with 
> printjobs from Mac OS X.
> 
> Helge
> 
> P.S.: this meets my suspicion on the level 1 compativlity.
> 

Thanks Helge, I will give it a try.

-- 
Kind regards
Christoph
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