Re: [HIGH] STR #4078: PDF document cannot be printed in landscape mode

Sonam Gupta <[email protected]>
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[STR Closed w/o Resolution]

> The filters we run will either auto rotate the content or produce ps
output with a landscape page size which tells the ps interpreter to do it.


How will the filters know that they have to auto rotate the content or
produce ps output with a 'landscape' page size ?

> Passing the landscape option to pstops will just cause problems.
>
> Postscript and CUPS raster drivers handle this properly. If you are
using a foomatic driver it is entirely possible the Ghostscript driver it
is using is broken and does not support landscape printing. 

In Solaris 11, the process that gets forked is "/usr/bin/pdftops -level3
<file> -".
How will "/usr/bin/pdftops" know that it should produce ps output with
landscape page size ?

Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L4078
Version: 1.4.5
Fix Version: Third-party
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