Re: Firefox always prints landscape
On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 12:07 -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >> Kent West wrote:
> >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>>> Kent West wrote:
> >>>>> 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.
> >>>> Printing to file a .ps and then using gv to look at that output is
> >>>> wrong also?
> >>> It looks fine via .ps and gv. (Good diagnostic; thanks. I'm still
> >>> not sure where to go from here, but this was good info.)
> >> Wel anyway you will be able to print via gv.
> >>
> > Ah. I didn't actually try printing from gv; I just looked at it
> > on-screen. Now that you've mentioned it, I tried printing, and it came
> > out landscape.
>
> I just found ~/.lpoptions in my home directory, and in it was a section
> that said "orientation-requested=4"; I changed this to 1, and now I'm
> getting portrait printouts instead of landscape. Woot! (Of course, I
> haven't tried printing from OO.o, etc, so I may have hosed up something
> else.)
>
> I don't know how this file was generated, or what 1 or 4 means, or where
> this file got the idea I wanted this setting to be 4, but I believe I'm
> getting closer to solving my issue.
>
> The printout seems a little low on the page, but I think I'll worry
> about that another day.
have you checked
/etc/papersize ?
/etc/paper.config has the options, id assume 'US-Letter' for you.
-matt zagrabelny
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