[kde-linux] Another KDE 4.x print problem?

[James Tyrer]

jim wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 17:59:26  Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
>> I've seen this sort of thing before, and I have a theory which may of
>>  course be totally invalid.  If the document has the landscape property
>>  embedded in it, then printing to portrait will read the instruction and
>>  rotate the print as necessary, whereas printing a landscape-format
>>  image, for instance, doesn't have it embedded and you must do it
>>  manually, in the print dialog.  Does that make sense?
> 
> Assuming your correct, how do you propose I print the document
> in Okular?

I would suggest that you not use Okular. :-|  Did you try GwenView?

> If I manually select 'landscape' mode in the 'Printer-Properties' dialog.
> The image is printed across the page.
> If I manually select 'portrait' mode in the 'Printer-Properties' dialog.
> The image is printed across the page.
> If I just select Print from the File menu (leave all settings as default),
> The image is printed across the page.
> 
> If the document has 'portrait' property embedded in it, than apparently
> there is nothing I can do manually to override that.
> 
> Its not a major problem for me, I have other utilities I can use to print
> the document correctly (XFig, Gimp, Display).
> 
> Whatever happened to KPDF and Xpdf?
> 

Okular replaced KPDF. :-(

AFAIK, Xpdf has no recent releases but the website is still there.

	http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

This is a mature project with release 3.02.  It compiles with GCC 4.3.3 
and seems to work OK.

However, if all you need to do is print an EPS, you should be able to do 
this with "GV" or you can use the command line (don't know how CUPS 
would handle the margins):

	lpr file.eps

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch