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Re: Alternative to Adobe Reader, anyone?



On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 14:33:19 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Monday 31 October 2016 12:59:06 maderios wrote:
> >
> > It depends on many paramaters, for example, postcript printer or not
> > postscript. In my case, postscript printer, with applications like
> > evince, firefox, etc..., printing  works same way with CTRL+P, then
> > choose -> page handling -> 'fit to printable area' or 'shrink...' or
> > 'none...'. I think it is the same for non postscript.
> 
> Thank you.  I'll start watching.  The "trouble" is that computers are 
> sometimes intelligent little beasties, and I very rarely want to print 
> anything that isn't A4 in the first place - so when I am not always offered 
> the chance to adjust the size it may be because it isn't necessary!  I _do_ 
> get offered the chance to switch landscape to portrait.

You final sentence is what interests me.

What would expect to happen if you chose "portrait" over "landscape"?

Bear in mind most printers feed paper in short-edge first.

-- 
Brian. 


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