How to set the printPaperOrientation

[Éric Miclo]

Le 31 août 08 à 08:55, Peter Alcibiades a écrit :

>
>
> I don't think it works, then.  What I did was write the contents of  
> the field
> to a temp print file, then call a shell script which in turn calls a  
> little
> awk program which formats the temp print file into an output file,  
> and pipes
> the results to kprinter.  It works fine, though of course you don't  
> get to
> do styled text.  It is a bit ridiculous to have to go through these  
> hoops.
> I also raised a bug on it.  Some of my printing issues appeared to  
> be Debian
> related, but I reproduced this one on both Debian and on Mandriva  
> 2008.

Same bug under Ubuntu.
>
>
> I think, pending 3.0, that the only thing you can do is write your  
> field to
> an external file and process it for printing from that.  I didn't try
> revPrintText, interesting to hear that it seems to have the same  
> issue.
>
>
> What happened with my attempts was that regardless of settings, it  
> would
> always print in portrait and always at the same size - thus  
> truncating the
> content.

Have the same problem here and need to print styled text in landscape.
Hope the bug will be addressed before version 3 is released.

Thanks, best regards,

ÉrIC
>
>
> Peter
>
>
> Éric Miclo wrote:
>>
>> Well, it was not to print a card but to print a field with
>> revPrintText or revPrintField.
>>
>>
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