On Sunday 21 June 2009 11:22:22 pm John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:31:53 -0700 > > John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo: > > I'll keep poking at it, but there are so many options that it > > may take the rest of my life to hit on the right combination. > > :( I keep hoping I can find a Linux user who actually owns one > > of these printers. > > Just to show you how messed up printing on Linux is, here is how > I finally got correct output: > > Set the Printer to default of TabloidExtra, no duplex, Portrait. > Open the PDF (exported from Scribus) in Okular > Print by setting in the printer Properties tab the margins to -0- > and the orientation to Portrait > > The landscape page then prints centered on the page in landscape > mode. If I tell it to print in landscape mode the output is > portrait. > > But Okular prints only one copy at a time because its "number of > copies" drop-down option is broken. And when you go to reprint it > remembers nothing of the options you set the previous time, so > you have to click - type - click - type all the way through the > print dialog boxes over again for each copy. > > This time I needed only 20 copies. I sure hope I find a better > way before the time comes when I need several hundred copies of > this cover.
You might have better luck with a different version of Linux. I guess Okular is a Debian thingie. I use Slackware, KDE, and either Acroread or Kpdf for printing files. Or I can just use lpr and specify a number of copies. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
