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). > > > > > > 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)? > > > > 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? -- Brian.