[cups] My printer prints only in "portait" mode instead of "landscape" mode for an A4 format PDF file

Helge Blischke HelgeBlischke at web.de
Tue Aug 19 07:35:03 PDT 2014


Am 19.08.2014 um 07:24 schrieb YuGiOhJCJ Mailing-List:

> Hello,
>
> My printer (Dell B1260dn Mono Laser Printer) prints only in  
> "portait" mode instead of "landscape" mode for an A4 format PDF fil  
> [1].
>
> My command to print is:
> $ lp tmp/example-image-a4-landscape.pdf
>
> You can find the log here:
> http://pastebin.com/FBCHDSbe
>
> On LibreOffice, I have found a way to solve this problem:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44664#c4
>
> But from command line, I have not found a workaround.
>
> Do you know what to do?
>
> Thank you.
> Best regards.
>
> [1] http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/mwe/example-image-a4-landscape.pdf
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Make sure you have a sufficiently recent version of cups-filters.
I just tested your PDF on Peppermint-Three-Linux (cups 1.5.3, cups- 
filters 1.0.18) and it printed OK.

Helge



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