On Tuesday, April 17, 2012 07:54 AM Malvern Star wrote:
The printer is set up correctly. The print preview and settings both show as landscape, but it still prints out in portrait mode. It is a bug.
Which application are we talking about here?
LibreOffice, currently I use 3.5.2.2, don't know about other versions. It is the same in openSUSE 11.4. I ran into that problem yesterday. Changing "Printer Language type" from "PDF" to "Postscript (Level from driver)" in "Printer Settings" -> "Properties" tab "Device" solved the problem. These dialogs are LibreOffice specific, so I don't know about other environments. It looks that it is better to set the default in LibreOffice in openSUSE, which is now set to PDF, to "Postscript (Level from driver)".
Freek, anecdotally, the problem may not be LibreOffice-specific. I've had occasional problems from 11.4 onwards printing some PDFs with Okular. I've had to open them in Adobe Reader on Windows to get them to print correctly. Examples include lack of colour, or only printing one colour, or only printing the outlines of letters instead of having them show as solid colour. Not sure if it's related, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Malvern. --
Sorry I can't remember the details - it's been well over a year since I researched this - but there was a known problem with printing pdf's in Ocular and I've seen it occasionally with Acroread. I seem to recall it was considered unresolvable (by KDE?) because it was upstream (CUPS?). I'm still on 11.4, and have had to work around this for a long time. Sometimes a file will print properly if the opposite mode is set (e.g., portrait for a landscape doc), sometimes I can't get it to work nohow and have to print using a Windows vm. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org