Package: gnumeric Version: 1.6.3-2 Severity: normal
I tried to print a small spreadsheet, which I hoped to fit on one page. There weren't room for the rightmost column though, so it appeared on a page of its own. No surprise, as I printed it in portrait orientation on A4 paper. So I tried turning the paper feed orientation by 90 degrees. The preview then shows my spreadsheet rotated the way I want it, on the A4-like paper in the preview. But silly enough, that column is _still_ on a page of its own, even though there now is room for it. Very strange, unless rotated printing is unsupported. Actually printing this gives a unrotated printout, so I guess rotated printing isn't supported? I tried changing the page orientation as well as the paper feeding orientation. This gave me a correct preview, at least. Pressing "print" in this preview dialog doesn't print, it brings up a printer select dialog, where I choose "epsonR800" instead of the default "generic postcript" and "Create a PDF document". Unfortunately, changing printer resets my choice of orientation! Stupid, now I have to change exactly the same stuff again! Now, I understand that changing printer might need a change in formjat, the other printer *might* support different paper only. But then, the choice of printer should happen before the choice of orientation and format! There is absolutely no use in carefully setting up the print job only to get every choice set back to whatever is default on the other printer. I hope you consider reordering (and simplifying) the dialogs so printer selection necessarily happens before format selection? Well, I changed the selections again, and got a good preview on the monitor, with correct printer selected. Paper feeding and page orientation were both rotated, in order to get a nice-looking preview. It printed upright anyway though. Well, this printer really only support portrait-oriented A4, bu the previews look like shit without rotated feeding, with most of the print outside the edge of the paper. :-( Ok, so I thought: lets try with correct settings, so I set it to non-rotated feeding, and landscape page orientation. Now the preview looks exactly like my shitty previous printout, that is, a landscape oriented page printed in portrait orientation so that the right edge is cut off. Headers and footers are placed wrong for a portrait page, correct for a landscape page. This looks stupid when it in fact previews in portrait orientation. Printing this preview mess gave me exactly the same mess on paper too. Changing page orientation to landscape clearly cause the print data to be laid out for A4 landscape, but it prints in portrait mode anyway. Both on printer and on the preview. :-( If the lanscape option isn't supported yet, please consider graying it out until it makes a difference. Changing the paper feeding orientation has effect on the preview, an no effect whatsoever on the printer. The option really shouldn't be offered when the printer doesn't support it. Assuming this is possible to detect, of course. So I tried printing to a pdf file. Rotation still did not work, no matter how I combined the two rotation options. (Rotated paper feeding, or landscape, or both). I finally printed straight up to a paper with a custom size. My custom paper had the same height as the width of an A4 paper, and the same width as the height of A4 paper. This pdf file printed correctly. Getting a correct landscape print is possibly, but only by jumping through hoops. 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