On 06/05/2012 05:08 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
I was just printing some material in "landscape" mode on my Samsung
SCX-4200 printer and could not figure out why it would only print in
"portrait" mode. After fiddling around with settings, I found that when
at the printing stage, the print window will open and if I went to
"Print->Properties->Device(tab)->Printer Language Type->" it showed
"pdf". If I changed it to ""PostScript (Level from driver)" everything
worked fine.
Is there a way to make the "PostScript" drive the default driver? It
just seems that whenever I open/close a piece of editing/wordprocessing
software, the driver goes back to "pdf".
Many thanks for any help.
Cheers,
Marc
Mageia2; Samsung SCX-4200
I ran into this problem back in February with LibreOffice Calc and my HP
printers. It was even more bothersome for me with Calc, as if you export
part of a spreadsheet to pdf, the resulting document won't print
correctly from any pdf reader where you can't tell it to auto-rotate the
page, no matter what you do.
Supposedly, if you go to /usr/lib/libreoffice/programs and run the
spadmin script, you can change this default setting (for the printer,
not the pdf export). That's the way LibreOffice set it up to work, as I
understand it. In practice, with Mageia anyway, if the "Disable CUPS
support" box isn't checked, the setting isn't permanent. But, if you
disable CUPS support, you'll need to provide your own printer command.
Interestingly enough, the problem didn't exist with the last Sun/Oracle
version of OpenOffice, so you could circumvent the problem by installing
and using that instead of LibreOffice. I haven't tried the new Apache
version of OpenOffice yet, so I don't know if that still holds true.
A workaround for individual files was to change the printer language
setting for each document, then save the document to make it permanent
for that document. You might have to make a small, invisible change in
the document itself, like adding a character and then removing it, to
trigger a proper save. I know it's a bother if you need to do it for a
lot of files, but it's all I know to do.
TJ
