Hi, I have a problem with printing pages in landscape mode from any
application.
I think I know what the problem is but I want to confirm the bug before
opening a report with apple.
My setup:
Linux server with cups 1.1.23+gimp-print installed and Browsing enabled
in cups
Apple Powerbook Panther 10.3.7, printer gets automatically detected by
the printing system.
Now for my problem. If I print a text document in portrait mode in
textedit everything works fine.
If I change to landscape mode, preview shows the page in landscape mode
BUT it comes out in portrait mode on the printer.
If I save the file as PDF and print it from the CLI with "lpr" the page
comes out correctly however.
So I took a close look on what was happening when printing out of an
application.
First I setup the Page with "Page Setup", then I say print and print
it, no problem so far.
Looking at the print command with "ps" shows me that the print-job is
using the IPP protocol and has all possible options for my printer
added. Colorspace,pagesize,... to name a few. This doesn't happen if I
print with "lpr".
"So what" - you might ask, the cups daemon on the printserver gets all
the options and uses them no big deal..
This is true but one of the options is "requested-orientation=4" which
means, print the following page rotated by 90°. So in this case, the
PDF created in "LANDSCAPE" mode gets rotated by 90° degrees and becomes
a "PORTRAIT" again.
I think that the print-system shouldn't send requested-orientation if
the page file being printed already has that information saved inside
itself.
It is still possible that this behaviour is because of a problem with
my setu-up here, so maybe someone has a same or similar set-up and can
test this before I file a bugreport.
Yes I know that this ML is not supposed to be a help channel, but
finding people with similar setups tends to be difficult and I don't
really want to file a bugreport before cross-checking my observations.
Thanks for the help in advance,
Mike
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