Re: Firefox always prints landscape
Kent West wrote:
> Using Sid, 2.6.11-1-686, cupsys
>
> Printing from OpenOffice.org is fine, but whenever I try to print from
> Firefix, the output comes out in Landscape with the top part of the text
> chopped off. The Print Preview looks fine.
>
> Google hasn't helped much; "about:config" and filtering for "print"
> doesn't show anything obviously out of place (but I don't really
> understand most of the options here); some of the Googling indicates
> that Xprint is somehow involved (I don't really understand Xprint, it's
> purpose or it's manner of working), but when I run
>
> export $XPSERVERLIST=`/etc/init.d/xprint get_xpserverlist`
>
> like some Google pages indicate, I get this error:
>
> bash: export: `=:64': not a valid identifier
>
When you export, take the dollar sign out of the front. If you leave in the
dollar sign, the shell substitutes the current value, then proceeds.
> When I run "xplsprinters" I get:
>
> xplsprinters: no printers found for printer spec "".
This is likely because your export statement above didn't work. The
XPSERVERLIST environment variable is blank.
>
> I've uninstalled all my printers from the cups web interface
> (http://localhost:631) and added back in just the one (remote,
> networked) HP LJ 4200 printer with which I'm concerned. All the settings
> that I can find indicate it should be printing portrait, on Letter
> paper. A test print from the cups web interface prints properly.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
Justin Guerin
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