On Thursday 21 December 2017 05:52:11 Brian wrote: > On Wed 20 Dec 2017 at 19:39:32 -0500, 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: > > > > 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? > > > > 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. > > So the contention is that "printing in landscape" involves selecting > the Landscape option in a drop-down menu of evince and then that will > produce a 90 degree rotation of a PDF page. > > However, I observe (on unstable, jessie and stretch) that a page like > this > > +----------+ > > > +----------+ > > is not rotated. Auto Rotate and Center was unchecked and the technique > in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/12/msg00584.html > > was used to examine the PDF to be sent to CUPS. > > It appears that "printing in landscape" doesn't always lead to a 90 > degree rotation when using evince..
I repeat, it was not requested as anything but Portrait for that job that failed. okular uses a different requester, which does not show that option in any menu, and it worked. Unfortunately, none of these things have a help pulldown that identify's them so fingers can be pointed at the guilty party. Perhaps a better question, since this seems to be a well known bug, is why has it not been fixed? And how is it turned of so as to become the default? 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>