On Wednesday 20 December 2017 19:39:32 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: > > > On Wednesday 20 December 2017 15:34:19 Brian wrote: > > > > On Tue 19 Dec 2017 at 14:44:09 +0000, Curt wrote: > > > > > There was a libgtk-3-0 bug that affected printing in evince > > > > > (which could be avoided by unchecking the default 'Auto Rotate > > > > > and Center' in the 'Page Handling' submenu of the print > > > > > dialogue). > > > > > Libgtk3 should have come with a 55 gallon drum of Raid. Gladevcp3 will never work with any stability until its fixed.
> > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=771205 > > > > > > > > > > This effectively prevents printing in landscape mode (you're > > > > > not trying to print in landscape mode again, are you Gene)? Of course I am for some jobs, as noted in a previous post earlier this evening. And I certainly wasn't doing landscape mode for an invoice composed in letter format, aka Portrait mode. > > > > I've seen this said before. but I've never understood what > > > > "printing in landscape mode" means. Does "printing in landscape" > > > > convey the same idea? > > > > > > 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? See previous post 20 minutes back. Or below. > > 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. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
