The "landscape" option is a shortcut for the IPP standard option "orientation-requested=3" and RFC 2911 (http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc2911) tells about the meaning of "orientation-requested=...":
---------- This attribute indicates the desired orientation for printed print- stream pages; it does not describe the orientation of the client- supplied print-stream pages. For some document formats (such as 'application/postscript'), the desired orientation of the print-stream pages is specified within the document data. This information is generated by a device driver prior to the submission of the print job. Other document formats (such as 'text/plain') do not include the notion of desired orientation within the document data. In the latter case it is possible for the Printer object to bind the desired orientation to the document data after it has been submitted. It is expected that a Printer object would only support "orientations-requested" for some document formats (e.g., 'text/plain' or 'text/html') but not others (e.g., 'application/postscript'). This is no different than any other Job Template attribute since section 4.2, item 1, points out that a Printer object may support or not support any Job Template attribute based on the document format supplied by the client. However, a special mention is made here since it is very likely that a Printer object will support "orientation-requested" for only a subset of the supported document formats. ---------- Following this, pdftopdf should ignore "landscape" and "orientation- requested" and texttopdf and imagetopdf should use it for layouting the job. To server special, size-less PostScript files, the "landscape" and "orientation-requested" should also be taken by the pstopdf filter and swap width and length of the page size supplied to Ghostscript for the PS->PDF conversion. WDYT? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1243484 Title: Incorrect handling of orientation when printing PDF files Status in “cups-filters” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: There seems to be some problems in the CUPS filters handling PDF files, which can be shown without having an actual printer hooked up (this seems to be independent of the driver in use). This happens on the latest Ubuntu 13.10 but I believe the real culprit is in the cups-filters 1.0.40 package. This happens when trying to print a PDF file (such as the CUPS test page in /usr/share/cups/data/default.pdf) and trying to change its orientation with the 'landscape' option, as such : lp -d queue -o landscape /usr/share/cups/data/default.pdf The result right now would be that the job is upside down, instead of being in a landscape orientation. This happens regardless of the driver. The same behavior doesn't happen for documents such as PostScript files, which works as expected, at least with a PS printer. The easiest way to test this is to set up queues that print to file (enable FileDevice in the CUPS config first) and look at the resulting files with a document viewer such as evince : - Create a new Generic Postscript queue using the default drivers, set it to print to a URI such as file:///tmp/test.ps - Send a PDF job to the queue with the landscape option - Look at the output in evince or Ghostview I strongly suspect something is amiss with the pdftopdf filter's handling of these options, especially in v1.0.40. Fedora 19 didn't exhibit the same problem until the cups-filters package was brought up to the same version just today. I also suspect that more than the orientation options are affected, we have had reports from customers having trouble with options handled through the Collate PPD options. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups-filters/+bug/1243484/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
