Re: Getting Gvim print button to print in landscape mode

On Sat, 01 Mar 2025, Eric Marceau wrote:

> On 2025-03-01 15:12, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> 
>     Your options included portrait, but I thought you wanted landscape?
> 
> As I pointed out in the snapshot of the documentation on the site that you sent
> me, it clearly states that
> 
>   • "portrait=n"  (please refer back to snapshot of that documentation page in
>     my previous email)
> 
> is the specified method to tell Gvim that landscape mode is the desired print
> mode.

As mentioned in the other message by Jürgen, make sure not to quote 
values when using :set

In any case, I'd suggest to generate a postscript file using :hardcopy 
and then inspect that file using e.g. ghostscript.

>     The bug was, that vim wouldn't set landscape orientation no matter what you
>     configured in printoptions in the generated postscript file.
> 
> Since you questioned the "portrait=n" method, is there a new "landscape=y"
> method, or is there a different documentation page that I should be referring
> to instead of the "vimhelp.org" reference?
> 
> 
>     Where did you find that URL?
> 
> That is the URL on the documentation page at
> 
>   • https://vimhelp.org/usr_90.txt.html#usr_90.txt
> 
> under the heading "FROM A PACKAGE".

I updated this page, also https://www.vim.org/binaries.html now 
correctly redirects to https://www.vim.org/download.php

> 
>     The ftp mirror has been retired.
> 
> Using the information obtained from
> 
>   • https://github.com/vim/vim?tab=readme-ov-file
> 
> is the most recent version (v9.1.1163) uploaded to
> 
>   • https://github.com/vim/vim/tags
> 
> a confirmed functional build?

Yes correct.

Thanks.
Christian
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