Landscape printing

[Helge Blischke]

Ray Stacey wrote:

>> Ray Stacey wrote:
>>
>> >> Ray Stacey wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > We are running cups 1.4.7 on Solaris 10. I'm trying to print a
>> >> > postscript file from our application using the command lp -o
>> >> > landscape -o PageSize=Legal -d treekill2 INV-R200.r01.17206.ps.
>> >> >
>> >> > The file prints on legal paper, however the first page is landscape
>> >> > and each subsequent page is rotated 90 degrees. So the first page is
>> >> > fine, the 5th page is fine, the 9th page is fine ....
>> >> >
>> >> > Any ideas??
>> >>
>> >> What make and model is the printer?
>> >> How is it configured?
>> >> is there a *cupsFilter line in the printer's PPD?
>> >> is there a *LandscapeOrientation: xxxx
>> >> where xxxx is either Plus90 or Minus90 in the PPD?
>> >>
>> >> Helge
>> >>
>> > It's an HP 8100. It is configured using the ppd file from the cups
>> > website. THere is no *cupsFilter and LandscapeOrientation is Plus90.
>> >
>> > I tried the same command with a generic postscript sample file and I'm
>> > not seeing the rotation problem. That means there is something wrong
>> > with the postscript output from our application. No idea what it could
>> > be, I don't know postscript language at all.
>>
>> Then post (an URL to) a sample file and do the following:
>> cupsctl --debug-logging
>> print the sample file
>> cupsctl --no-debug-logging
>> post the portion of the /var/log/cups/error_log that contains the
>> messages related to the test job.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> Here you go:
> 
> http://home.sourcecable.net/~raystacey/test.ps
> 

Ray,

your PostScript job itself contains the necessary transformation for 
landscape printing, and the contents of each page - including the showpage 
execution - is enclosed in a save / restore pair.
Thus, the transformation inserted by cups' pstops filter for landscape 
printing acts outside the page contents bracketed by save and restore what 
results in every page rotated by 90 degrees with respect to the previous.

Please try printing without the "-o landscape" option; I'm pretty sure 
you'll get the right printout then.

Helge