Hi, Marjorie Roome via Dng writes:
> Hi Haines, > > On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 15:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: >> I have bsd-lpr. I can print a text file with landscape orientation >> with $ lpr -o landscape file.txt >> >> My problem is that I cannot print pdf files in landscape >> orientation. $ lpr -o landscape file.pdf does nothing. >> >> I don't want to make landscape the default CUPS orientation. >> >> Atril rotates the display of the PDF, but not the content of the >> file in relation to the page when printed. >> >> The qpdfview utility also can rotate the display of text but >> when printed the effect is simply move text up on the page. >> >> I don't see how poppler-utils can be of help. >> >> How does one print a PDF with landscape orientattion? >> > Isn't the page orientation used encoded in the pdf? > > To change it, other than by shrinking the page down so it fits on the > paper in landscape orientation I think you would need to use a pdf > editor to reflow the content. I don't do a lot of printing and even less modifying of PDF files but perhaps pdftopdf can be of help here. It's in the cups-filters-core-drivers package. > If you have a document or image that you are converting to a pdf then > if you format the document or image landscape then the exported pdf > will also be landscape. Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
