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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