Ricoh will not print a PDF in landscape

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Wed Jan 12 13:25:41 PST 2011


Jason Czerak wrote:

>> Jason Czerak wrote:
>>
>> > Anyone have this problem before?
>> >
>> > No amount of searching brings anything useful up.  Anyone have
>> > suggestions?
>>
>> What release of CUPS?
>>
>> Please provide a sample PDF and the command(s) used.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> 
> I couldn't give you the "oracle generated pdf" due to confidentiality
> stuff. But the test.pdf found here
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=306414  does the same thing.
> 
> However, I think I finally figured out something in the mean time that
> works.  I just sent the PDF "raw" to the Ricoh's and it figured it out and
> printed.
> 
> Will this option work for HP's. I suppose it depends on the age and
> capabilities.
> 
> I'd really like to get working is the postscript output so scripting isn't
> as complicated.

Well, this is the type of PDF *all* pdf to ps filters which are in use with 
CUPS cannot ope with correctly:

The PDF specifies an A4 portrait media size in the root ovject of the pages 
tree but specifies a landscape letter media size in the object describing 
the page itself.

All pdftops filters (including the cgpdftops on Mac OS X) I had the pleasure 
to deal with cannot properly handle PDFs with pages of different sizes.

Moreover, the pstops filter(s) as well cannot properly handle PS jobs with 
different page sizes.

I think this needs a redesign; I'll think about it -- but this certainly is 
not a short term project.

Helge






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