Bug#824419: cups-filters: Please document pdfAutorotate in the README
On Sun 15 May 2016 at 19:20:19 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> Although pdfAutorotate was introduced in cups-filters 1.0.25 it is not
> documented anywhere. I would suggest the README is as good a place as
> any. My suggestion is:
>
> A PDF file containing pages with page width greater than page height
> (a landscape page) has such pages automatically rotated anticlockwise
> by 90 degrees. To turn off the feature on a job-for-job basis use
>
> lp -d <print_queue_name> -o nopdfAutorotate <document>
>
> On a per queue basis use
>
> -o nopdfAutorotate
>
> as an option to lpadmin.
>
> Note that the 'landscape' and 'orientation-requested=4' options of
> CUPS take precedence and are applied before 'pdfAutorotate' or
> 'nopdfAutorotate'.
The suggestion doesn't quite match the reality of cups-filters 1.0.83.
A corrected patch is:
A PDF file containing pages with page width greater than page height
(a landscape page) has such pages automatically rotated anticlockwise
by 90 degrees unless the PPD file has a *LandscapeOrientation line
saying 'Minus90', which results in a 90 degree rotation clockwise. To
turn off the feature on a job-for-job basis use
lp -d <print_queue_name> -o nopdfAutorotate <document>
On a per queue basis use
-o nopdfAutorotate
as an option to lpadmin.
Note that the 'landscape' and 'orientation-requested=4' options of
CUPS take precedence and are applied before 'pdfAutorotate' or
'nopdfAutorotate'.
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