Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't print in landscape on Epson in openSUSE

WooHoo :) Congrats on fixing this.

It is great that manufacturers are beginning to take some responsibility.  
Hopefully they will put some resources of their own into developing drivers and 
things for unix-based systems (rather than just paying stacks for an ultra-swish 
but unhelpful website).  We can't expect understanding or knowledge from them 
yet so please try to be gentle with them! lol.  


Congrats and regards from
Tom :)




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From: Stedtlund <falolaf@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Tue, 3 May, 2011 10:41:24
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't print in landscape on Epson in openSUSE

Hi,
(Little embarrassed...)

I'm sorry for the noise, but I have found the problem. I should have
done the installation of the drivers more carefully.

When I installed the drivers for the printer the ppd wasn't actually
made visible to CUPS. So I could never select the correct driver when
adding the printer in CUPS, only gutenprint was there. I have now
copied the ppd manually.

I don't think I'm the only one to blame though. The installation
instructions are not correct on avasys pages. I will contact them
again about that.

/Anders

2011/5/2 Stedtlund <falolaf@gmail.com>:
> Hi Cor,
>
> 2011/4/30 Cor Nouws <oolst@nouenoff.nl>:
> > Hi Anders,
> >
> > Stedtlund wrote (30-04-11 11:33)
> >
> > > I have just dicovered that I can't print in landscape from
> > > writer/calc. The letters seems to have been stretched and printed over
> > > each other. Same happens if the document has been converted to pdf and
> > > then printed.
> >
> > Since OOo 3.3.0, there is a change in how special page sizes are handled.
> > Probably this is the cause of your problem.
> > See the OOo bug http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113562
>
> I'm not sure about that.
> First, I have only used A4 as the page size. Hopefully that should be
> the same in portrait and landscape.
> Second, I installed OOo 3.2.1 and I can see, almost, the same
> behaviour with that version. The difference is that the page is not
> turned 180 degrees. Text is still distorted.
>
> > > I can print the same document from kword/kspread correctly. I can
> > > export to pdf from kword/kspread and print correctly.
> > >
> > > I can also print the same document correctly from LO 3.3.2 in Windows
> > > Vista to the same printer. (I have dual boot)
> >
> > Reading comment #10 and 12 in the report, you can understand that the
> > changed behaviour is related to de defined page sizes for the printer.
> > That must be the reason why printing on Ubuntu behaves different from that
> > on Windows.
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Cor
> >
> >
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