how to print to file in landscape mode?
Peter Alcibiades
palcibiades-first at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Mar 5 10:40:48 EST 2008
Mark, it says in my dictionary (2.9 beta 5) that printRotated is now
deprecated and does the same as what I have used, setting to landscape mode
which is preferable.
What is also very odd is that when I check in the message box, the mode does
indeed return landscape.
It is possible, from a communication from support, that you have to use lp to
print. I'm not, I'm printing to a jetdirect seemingly using socket, which
has been set up in CUPS - don't quite understand all this stuff.
But surely none of this should matter if we are just printing to a file? The
problem is not with printing once I have the file. I can print the file fine
using kprinter. The problem is generating a ps file in landscape form to
print. Or does it use lp to generate the ps file? if so, there should be
someplace a script to change its parameters.
The problem seems to be a bit narrowed down by the discovery that in page
setup invoked from the script, if you change the paper layout from portrait
to landscape, the height and width measurements do not change. So this
suggests an oddity in Rev's handling perhaps?
Peter
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