Re: got a new one
On Wed 20 Dec 2017 at 17:06:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2017 15:34:19 Brian wrote:
>
> > On Tue 19 Dec 2017 at 14:44:09 +0000, Curt wrote:
> > > 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.
What determines the choice of pages which suffer a 90 degree rotation?
--
Brian.
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