Re: Getting Gvim print button to print in landscape mode

Eric Marceau <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.editors.vim
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thank you, Christian.


I appreciate your willingness to volunteer a different approach, but in 
this instance I prefer the direct route.

For more complex situations, I might reconsider that approach.


Eric


On 2025-03-03 02:20, Christian Brabandt wrote:
> 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, alsohttps://www.vim.org/binaries.html  now
> correctly redirects tohttps://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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