On Mon 11 Jun 2018 at 18:40:49 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:29 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Mon 28 May 2018 at 18:20:13 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > > > > > Having upgraded to Stretch, a file that I need to print no longer prints > > > properly. (It did before.) > > > > > > I am sure the difficulty is so idiosyncratic no one here will have > > > experienced it. So I'm not asking how to fix it specifically. Rather I'm > > > looking for advice how to isolate the difficulty, generally speaking. > > > > What is offered in the printing section of the wiki could help. > > > > Thanks for this. I was unaware. > > The problem I'm seeing seems to be in the CUPS filter gstoraster. That is, > all is well at the preceding step: > > # /usr/sbin/cupsfilter -p /etc/cups/ppd/Zebra.ppd -m > application/vnd.cups-pdf -o orientation-requested=3 tag_generator.pdf > > out.pdf
The output of pdfinfo for tag_generator.pdf would be useful. > Well, almost. It was necessary to include the "orientation-requested=3" > option to keep the document from rotating. That directive produces a rotation of 0 degrees. It is difficult to see how it promotes or stops rotation. > But at the next step, the document is laid on its side no matter the > orientation requested: "laid on its side" means? -- Brian.
