landscape printing from MacOS

[cheryl southard]

Hi Michael,

The CVS version of 1.3.11 fixed the Mac landscape printing problem.

Thanks!

Cheryl
> On May 22, 2009, at 2:42 PM, cheryl southard wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > Our print server is running RedHat 4 computer with cups V1.3.9.
> > Some of the print clients are Macs running Leopard.  What is the
> > proper way to fix the landscape printing problem from the Macs?
> > This is the old problem where the Macs attempt to print to a cups
> > printer in landscape mode, but it comes out in portrait mode.
>
> The issue is that the Macs are providing PDFs that are already
> landscape, and the open source PDF filter is (too helpfully) using the
> landscape page size instead of letting pstops handle the rotation.
>
> I just committed a fix for this in the 1.3.x repository; if you are up
> to compiling CUPS, grab the current sources from the Subversion
> repository, build, and install.  Otherwise wait for updated RPMs once
> 1.3.11 is released.
>
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