On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 14:56:04 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 01 November 2016 10:30:54 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 23:38:36 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Monday 31 October 2016 20:34:32 Brian wrote: > > > > I _do_ > > > > > > > > > get offered the chance to switch landscape to portrait. > > > > > > > > You final sentence is what interests me. > > > > > > > > What would expect to happen if you chose "portrait" over "landscape"? > > > > > > > > Bear in mind most printers feed paper in short-edge first. > > > > > > Portrait is the default. If I do not ask it to turn a landscape image > > > round, a high percentage of it will be outside the printing area and I > > > would have tramlines at the top and bottom of the page. > > > > > > Put a landscape image over the top of a portrait oriented sheet of paper > > > and you'll see what I mean. > > > > I understand what you mean. If we are still talking in the context of > > Evince, the "Landscape" and "Portrait" options are handled by Cairo, not > > CUPS. If you select "Landscape", Cairo rotates *every" page in the PDF > > by 90 degrees if the page width is *less* than the height. If you had a > > 842x595 sized pages they would not be rotated. Effectively, the option > > does nothing. Or rather - it doesn't do what you think it does. > > > > But (you say). the printout is OK. That's because you have the "Auto > > Rotate and Centre" option ticked. Nothing to do with "Landscape" > > selected. > > > > Even if you forgot to tick "Auto Rotate and Centre" and sent a 842x595 > > page to the printer it will still be printed correctly because the > > pdftopdf filter of cups-filters automatically rotates landscape pages by > > 90 degrees before printing. > > It must be my printer that is doing it then. I agree that if the > image will fit I am asked nothing. But if I have a landscape A4 image > I am asked if I want it rotated to portrait.
It would be highly unusual for your printer itself to do rotation of a page sent to it. I've only ever seen it being done by the sending application or by CUPS/cups-filters. If you are being asked then that would surely be a question from the sending software. With Jessie it would be a redundant question because pdftopdf will automatically rotate it anyway. > My current Evince has gone mad anyway and I have not yet battled it. > I am just using kpdf-trinity most of the time. I rarely need to do > more to a pdf than read it. I can't check what the default ticks in > Evince are because I can't currently get at any of the settings. I > have altered nothing in it. I can't get at it!! I'm unfamiliar with kpdf but autorotation should happen if the CUPS version is 1.7. A solution to your Evince problem could be purging and reinstalling it. -- Brian.
