Can't print pdf file in portrait format

[James Richard Tyrer]

Nadine Heymann wrote:
> I can't print the following file in portrait:
> http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~nachtiga/Nennungsformular.pdf
> (I put it there so that I don't have to attach it)
> 
> It is always printed in landscape which my printer can't handle, that is the 
> right side of the page is cut off. When I open the file with kghostview it is 
> shown horizontally, whereas xpdf shows it vertically. 
> 
> I use 
> nadine at heyhome:~$ kprinter --version
> Qt: 3.1.1
> KDE: 3.1.0
> kprinter: 0.0.1
> 
> and cups 1.1.14 on debian woody.
> 
> The only way round this I found was to convert the file to pdf (pdf2ps) and 
> open it with gimp (still in landscape), rotate it by 90° (now portrait) and 
> print it this way. Not very handy.

The PostScript language news group would probably be more help.

There are errors in the file that are probably screwing things up.

It will NOT display correctly in KGhostView.

The latest version of Xpdf 2.02p11 appears to work correctly.

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JRT