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From: Ben Rosenberg
* Bruce Marshall (bmarsh@bmarsh.com) [021226 14:47]: ::On Thursday 26 December 2002 14:39 pm, Dom Incollingo wrote: ::> I am running 8.1 and using CUPS to print. Whenever I try to print ::> landscape from an application (Mozilla, KView, etc.), the output ::> prints in portrait. According to the SuSE support database, the ::> solution is to add the following command to the application: ::> ::> sed -e 's/Orientation: Landscape/Orientation: Portrait/' | lpr ::> ::> I added this command to Mozilla (Print Command within Print ::> Properties), and it works fine. But I do not know WHERE to enter this ::> command in the various K-applications (KView, KWrite, etc.). Does ::> anyone know where to enter this command to be able to print landscape ::> in K-applications such as KWrite? Thanks very much. :: ::Wow... if that's how technologically advanced CUPs is... I guess I will ::never be using CUPs. That's absurd!
Remember that Mozilla isn't a KDE app and therefore it is only slightly controlled by the settings of KDE. Mozilla takes it's hints (as stupid as it may seem) from Gnome because it is a GTK based application. If you want to change the way a KDE application prints it's quite easy and CUPS supports all of this. CUPS even supports changing how GTK apps such as Mozilla print, but KDE isn't going to be very good at controlling it..hence the .js files that control Mozilla's behavior. I know this is still a bit of a failing/strength depending on how one looks at it. The above command can most likely be integrated into a user.js file in ~/.mozilla but I don't know where to put it.
If you check out this screen-shot you will see that CUPS when controlled by KDE doesn't have any issues printing in Landscape or Portrait.
http://whack.org/~ben/screenshot-print-settings.jpg
It's not a failing of CUPS..but the failing of the various camps that produce GUI applications in the UNIX/Linux world. It's getting better but it can be a painful growth for some people.
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But on my system, CUPS does have problems printing landscape when it is controlled by KDE. I have checked the 'landscape' check box (just like the one shown in your screen shot), but it still prints portrait. The SuSe support database discusses this problem (http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/jsmeix_print-cups-landscape-81.html), but it doesn't say how to integrate the corrected command into KDE applications. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze