Re: [libreoffice-users] Mac Writer Stuck Printing in Landscape

On 08/31/2017 12:44 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
> At 10:06 31/08/2017 -0500, Alex Noname wrote:
> > After a recent update to Version: 5.4.0.3, Writer only prints in 
> > landscape. Calc prints fine. Writer Print To PDF and To Printer is 
> > landscape though GUI shows portrait. I deleted the printer and then 
> > installed again to no avail. Mac OS 10.12.6 Sierra. Please advise.
>
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92190 suggests 
> that this is a known bug, not yet remedied.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "Print To PDF": are you using a Mac 
> facility to do this or LibreOffice's own File | Export as PDF...? One 
> of the workarounds suggested is to use Export as PDF... and then print 
> that from your favourite PDF viewer. Does that not work for you?
>
> The other suggestion is to tinker with the page size very slightly 
> (and imperceptibly), so that you are actually using a user-defined 
> paper size instead of the built-in A4 or Letter or whatever.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barker
I am having the same issues with my newest printer.  It has an annoying 
"filter" that seems to want to use the printer page and tray options 
that it thinks you need.  Not as bad in Windows, but I rarely use 
anything other than Ubuntu for my documents and poster work.  If you 
have an image in the document, it tries to force you to use the photo 
paper in the back tray instead of the plain paper in the lower trays.

One way that worked for a few weeks was to purge LibreOffice and 
reinstall.  Another way was to go into the printer driver system and do 
my best to make it choose portrait as the default and only do landscape 
when asked for.  Same with plain paper over any style of higher quality 
paper.

I do not know what Mac's OS options are to add and modify printers and 
its drivers, but Ubuntu Linux is straight foreword.

The only thing I still have not gotten to work was to use "borderless" 
paper sizes, within LibreOffice, in plain paper to save ink.  The 
printer will not use borderless sizes other than photo paper.  The only 
way I can do this is to export to PDF and cross my fingers to hope it 
will use portrait on a portrait orientation, instead of printing a 
landscape orientation sheet with a small portrait page on only half of 
the page - i.e. two pages on one side of the sheet of paper.

Getting two side printing within LibreOffice can add more to the 
challenge for that printer.  I do have an older noisy printer that will 
work OK within LO, but not always.  Of course if I do not want duplex 
printing with no color, I always could use the 15 year old laser printer.


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