Re: got a new one
On Wednesday 20 December 2017 15:34:19 Brian wrote:
> On Tue 19 Dec 2017 at 14:44:09 +0000, Curt wrote:
> > On 2017-12-19, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> > > Greetings all;
> > >
> > > I just got a pdf emailed to me thats an invoice, and a puzzle. The
> > > automatic linkage when I click on the pdf opens it in evince. It
> > > reads perfectly on screen, but prints blank pages. Even with the
> > > colors inverted.
> > >
> > > I then saved it, loaded it up into okular, and it printed
> > > perfectly.
> > >
> > > evince has printed 700+ page documents, several times, flawlessly.
> > >
> > > So to what/where do I send this one page pdf as a test pdf to be
> > > used to fix evince?
> >
> > There was a libgtk-3-0 bug that affected printing in evince (which
> > could be avoided by unchecking the default 'Auto Rotate and Center'
> > in the 'Page Handling' submenu of the print dialogue).
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771205
> >
> > This effectively prevents printing in landscape mode (you're not
> > trying to print in landscape mode again, are you Gene)?
>
> I've seen this said before. but I've never understood what "printing
> in landscape mode" means. Does "printing in landscape" convey the same
> idea?
Either one implies a 90 degree rotation of the page on the paper, so that
loooong lines don't either get clipped off at the right margin, or often
as not line wrapped by the printer which means on a multipage document,
the pdf interpretors page count doesn't get totally scrambled & starts
putting the headers and footers in the middle of the page. Doesn't
always help though, some of the hal files I've hacked up over the years
have effectively been north of 220 chars/line. There are ways to fix
that, but they are relatively new in linuxcnc's init functions. Those
older files usually get fixed if I have to revisit them, because the
hardware changed or something.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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