Gregory Pittman schrieb am Donnerstag, 11. Oktober 2007: > Frank Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:31:56 -0400 > > > > Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: > >> I was able to get it to print landscape on Fedora 7 by unclicking Auto > >> Rotate, > >> then clicking Properties button and adding '-o landscape' to the command > >> -- added as the first option, don't know if that makes a difference. > > > > When I print my test pdf using those steps it does indeed come out in > > landscape mode, but there is a 3.25 inch space between the left-hand side > > of the paper and the first T. In other words, the whole thing appears to > > be shifted about two inches to the right and doesn't fit on the sheet > > properly. If I had a longer word that extended closer to the right hand > > side of the sheet it would have been cut off. > > I've just been trying this with my Adobe Reader v7.08 at home, and it > seems it is at least as screwed up as v8 (this is also on Fedora 7). > Check this out: > When I print with landscape selected, and with the '-o landscape' > option, printing four pages of a document had the first page printing > portrait but upside down (ie, the bottom of the page came out of the > printer first -- top of the printed matter near the top of the paper), > the second landscape rotated 90 degrees clockwise toward the right-hand > margin of the printed material, the third came out rotated another 90 > degrees clockwise, in other words printed portrait right-side up with > the bottom margin of the printed page against the bottom of the paper, > and the fourth was again rotated 90 degrees from that in somewhere near > the middle of the paper. I guess if I printed more pages each would keep > rotating 90 degrees and otherwise migrating its position on the paper as > well! > > Conclusion: Adobe Reader landscape printing in Linux, at least on Fedora > 7, is hopelessly screwed up in either versions 7.x or 8.x. > Alternative Forrest Gump conclusion: "Adobe Reader landscape printing is > like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." > > Greg
Is it possible that this is a Fedora Problem? I have never ha a problem to print landscape PDFs with Acrobat Reader 7.x on opensuse. Haven't tested 8.x yet. The standard option for printing always just worked. Jan
