On 2026-03-20, Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2026 at 01:43:40PM -0000, CGS wrote: >> On 2026-03-18, Haines Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >> > In a new installation, when printing with lpr the output is >> > landscape when it should be portrait. >> > >> > When CUPS prints its test page, it is normal (portrait) > >> I think this must be an emacs quirk, if it only happens in emacs. > > You misunderstood. When printing a plain text file witn lpr, the > output orientation is landscape. It should be portrait. One might > think that using lpr with -o option would rotate 90° and be a > work around, but not so. The output remains landscape for all > values now.
That's disconcerting that things are getting worse instead of better. What about printf "Hello\n" | lpr The orientation might be informative. > The file printed by emacs is landcape as well >
