Re: got a new one
On Wednesday 20 December 2017 19:39:32 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 December 2017 17:56:46 Brian wrote:
> > 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).
> > > > >
Libgtk3 should have come with a 55 gallon drum of Raid. Gladevcp3 will
never work with any stability until its fixed.
> > > > > 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)?
Of course I am for some jobs, as noted in a previous post earlier this
evening.
And I certainly wasn't doing landscape mode for an invoice composed in
letter format, aka Portrait mode.
> > > > 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?
See previous post 20 minutes back. Or below.
>
> Not individual pages unless you want to jump thru some pretty small
> hoops. You can select it for the whole, individual print job, in the
> printer requester that pops up when you select print from some
> application. I varies as to what tab its under but will usually be a 4
> choice. 2 of them will be labeled Portrait and Landscape, the other 2
> are further rotations at 180 and 270 degrees. The better versions of
> that requester will also let you specify odd only or even only, or a
> page range in case you only want a 10 page piece of a 750 pager.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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