[cups.general] Landscape printing from OS X clients

[henri]

I have seen these issues with some versions of CUPS and Mac OS X  
combinations. A colleague has written a filter for the server which  
seems to work. If you would like I can put you either in touch with  
them or the filter.

Hope this helps.


>
> I am having problems printing from OS-X clients. The symptom is that  
> when I print a file in landscape, the page is rotated 180 degrees  
> instead of the expected 90 degrees.
>
> A similar setup with an old 1.1 CUPS on OS-X (10.3) server works, my  
> current setup with CUPS 1.3.9-r1 on Gentoo Linux has this problem.
>
> The printer is a Konica-Minolta Di550 with a Fiery X3 55BW.
>
> I have the appropriate PPD for it; however, it wants to use a filter  
> ("fierycupsfilter") that exists on the OS-X installation but not on  
> the Linux installation. Needless to say that this filter does not  
> run on the Linux box. I removed te line fron the PPD and all  
> functions are available ans functional, except for proper landscape  
> printing.
>
> Could (the lack of) this filter be the problem? There are also other  
> filters on the OS-X box that don't exist on the Linux install  
> (cgpdftopdf, cgpdftops, cgpdftoraster, nsimagetopdf, nstexttopdf and  
> pictwpstops).
> What do these do exactly? Are there alternatives to these filters?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks for reading,
> Roy
>