hi > Here are some observations about printing landscape orientation > directly from Scribus. > > If you have a page oriented in a landscape fashion in Scribus, when > you print in a normal (i.e., portrait) manner, it will print in a > landscape way. In other words, the right hand side of the page as > displayed comes out the printer first. If you set for a landscape > mode of printing, it comes out the printer as a portrait printing, > i.e., the top of your landscape-oriented page comes out the printer > first. This seems to be true for whatever OS you are using. > > On Fedora, for the most part I have to use an alternative printer > command (I use lpr), and in this case you see a similar phenomenon, > using either the default option (equivalent to '-o portrait'), or use > '-o landscape'. A landscape-oriented page comes out in a landscape > way (right side of the page first) if you use '-o portrait', but a > portrait-oriented page requires you to specify '-o landscape' for the > page to come out in a landscape way (right side of the page first). > > So although it's quirky, it is possible to control the printing > orientation. You just have to experiment. > > Greg > > Addendum - more weirdness > > If you have a page already in a portrait orientation, and you go to > File > > Document Setup and switch to landscape, this will only apply to > > new > pages you create, and does not affect the existing page(s). > So I just now started with a one-page document in portrait > orientation, switched to landscape in Document Settings, then added a > page. Then I printed the entire document with 'lpr -o landscape' from > Scribus. The first page came out right side of the page first, the > second page came out bottom side first!
as is, i fear that this interesting work of yours will be lost in the ML archives... i've openened a "project" on landscape in a platform that i plan to open sometimes in the future (ASAP... but, well, first it must be stable and have some more things defined). i will record in there future comments on this topics... and i really hope that at some we can define in a reliable way what has to be changed in scribus and what a user has to do in order to be able to print to landscape. thanks for your contribution! a.l.e
