Re: got a new one
On Thursday 21 December 2017 05:52:11 Brian wrote:
> 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..
I repeat, it was not requested as anything but Portrait for that job that
failed. okular uses a different requester, which does not show that
option in any menu, and it worked. Unfortunately, none of these things
have a help pulldown that identify's them so fingers can be pointed at
the guilty party.
Perhaps a better question, since this seems to be a well known bug, is
why has it not been fixed? And how is it turned of so as to become the
default?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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