Re: got a new one
On Wed 20 Dec 2017 at 19:39:32 -0500, 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:
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> 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.
So the contention is that "printing in landscape" involves selecting
the Landscape option in a drop-down menu of evince and then that will
produce a 90 degree rotation of a PDF page.
However, I observe (on unstable, jessie and stretch) that a page like
this
+----------+
| |
| |
+----------+
is not rotated. Auto Rotate and Center was unchecked and the technique
in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/12/msg00584.html
was used to examine the PDF to be sent to CUPS.
It appears that "printing in landscape" doesn't always lead to a 90
degree rotation when using evince..
--
Brian.
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