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! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20121025/0ecbbd4d/attachment.html>
