Re: Firefox always prints landscape

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 12:07 -0600, Kent West wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Kent West wrote:
Printing from OpenOffice.org is fine, but whenever I try to print
from Firefix, the output comes out in Landscape with the top part
of the text chopped off. The Print Preview looks fine.
Printing to file a .ps and then using gv to look at that output is
wrong also?
It looks fine via .ps and gv. (Good diagnostic; thanks. I'm still
not sure where to go from here, but this was good info.)
Wel anyway you will be able to print via gv.

Ah. I didn't actually try printing from gv; I just looked at it
on-screen. Now that you've mentioned it, I tried printing, and it came
out landscape.

I just found ~/.lpoptions in my home directory, and in it was a section
that said "orientation-requested=4"; I changed this to 1, and now I'm
getting portrait printouts instead of landscape. Woot! (Of course, I
haven't tried printing from OO.o, etc, so I may have hosed up something
else.)

I don't know how this file was generated, or what 1 or 4 means, or where
this file got the idea I wanted this setting to be 4, but I believe I'm
getting closer to solving my issue.

The printout seems a little low on the page, but I think I'll worry
about that another day.

have you checked

/etc/papersize ?

/etc/paper.config has the options, id assume 'US-Letter' for you.

-matt zagrabelny


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