Ricoh will not print a PDF in landscape

[Jason Czerak]

> 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
>
>


So, I'm stuck? :)  Since RAW works, I was thinking either doing an instance on all nodes with RAW, or just overriding it in the Filter section that seems to be in the printers.conf, remove foomatic-rip infavor of "-".