On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 07:54:36PM +0100, Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
Hi,
Dave Feustel schrieb:
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 06:59:55PM +0100, Dave Feustel wrote:
Firefox does not print correctly portrait pdf files with embedded landscape pages. An example is the file http://dfeustel.home.mindspring.com/ece-equations.pdf. This paper is portrait style, but pages 20-25 have tables in landscape format. GV (called by firefox) prints the tables in portrait mode, truncating the right side, and then dies with a printer error (PC XL error - illegal media size). Also, there are lines of what probably is PostScript or PDF printed on top of the tables.
I just discovered that Firefox running on Fedora 9 displays the tables of equations on pages 20-25 in portrait mode, not landscape mode as in Firefox running on OpenSuse. So it looks like there are some pdf-related bugs in the OpenSuse version of Firefox.
Hmm, no. I'm quite confused how you print a PDF from within Firefox at all since Firefox can't decode PDFs so it's all about the other application (gv?) or your printer setup.
Firefox apparently handles the pdf file off to gv which does the actual printing. I've been using Firefox for about a week and I'm still getting use to it. NoScript plugin made me an instant convert. What I think I see now is that OpenSuse gv automagically switches to landscape mode to display wide portrait-mode tables but does nothing special when printing those tables. Then the printing routine dies when the too-wide tables don't fit on the paper. Printing on OpenSuse 11.0 has a few issues, but I have so far gotten by with some workarounds.
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