On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 12:07 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Kent West wrote: > >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>>> Kent West wrote: > >>>>> Printing from OpenOffice.org is fine, but whenever I try to print > >>>>> from Firefix, the output comes out in Landscape with the top part > >>>>> of the text chopped off. The Print Preview looks fine. > >>>> Printing to file a .ps and then using gv to look at that output is > >>>> wrong also? > >>> It looks fine via .ps and gv. (Good diagnostic; thanks. I'm still > >>> not sure where to go from here, but this was good info.) > >> Wel anyway you will be able to print via gv. > >> > > Ah. I didn't actually try printing from gv; I just looked at it > > on-screen. Now that you've mentioned it, I tried printing, and it came > > out landscape. > > I just found ~/.lpoptions in my home directory, and in it was a section > that said "orientation-requested=4"; I changed this to 1, and now I'm > getting portrait printouts instead of landscape. Woot! (Of course, I > haven't tried printing from OO.o, etc, so I may have hosed up something > else.) > > I don't know how this file was generated, or what 1 or 4 means, or where > this file got the idea I wanted this setting to be 4, but I believe I'm > getting closer to solving my issue. > > The printout seems a little low on the page, but I think I'll worry > about that another day.
have you checked /etc/papersize ? /etc/paper.config has the options, id assume 'US-Letter' for you. -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
