[Okular-devel] [Bug 243953] does not print landscape when pdf is in lansdscape

[dmoyne]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243953





--- Comment #3 from dmoyne <daniel moyne neuf fr>  2010-10-21 12:08:53 ---
Yes it is ; I have built a landscape sheet with Kword saved it in pdf file and
it is the same problem with my new distribution (kubuntu Maevrick) with Okular
; if you check landscape in the setting of Okular with a landscape sheet you
get portrait printing but as you suggest checking portait then works fine ; so
all this is oviously due of action behind buttons ; apparently in the printer
setting (common for all KDE applications) :
- portait means as is,
- landscape rotated 90 °.

As I have done this test with a pdf sheet being curious I opened the sheet with
acroread and decided to print it and it is exactly the same : the sheet being
built as landscape is correctly printed if you leave portrait checked.

So portrait and landscape in printer settings have different meanings than in
the page setting of applications creating the page :
- in printer setting portrait leaves the page as is (lanscape correctly
printed), whereas landscape force printer to print the page in a 90° direction
compared to what you expect to get.

At the end of the day all this is very confusing and I simply suggest the
following :
- like in acroread show the page as is (landfscape or portait as built by the
creating application),
- but to improve user comprehension add another icon for the page as printed
depending of which radio button checked.

Like tghis everybody will be happy.
Thanks.

--- Comment #4 from dmoyne <daniel moyne neuf fr>  2010-10-21 12:08:54 ---
Yes it is ; I have built a landscape sheet with Kword saved it in pdf file and
it is the same problem with my new distribution (kubuntu Maevrick) with Okular
; if you check landscape in the setting of Okular with a landscape sheet you
get portrait printing but as you suggest checking portait then works fine ; so
all this is oviously due of action behind buttons ; apparently in the printer
setting (common for all KDE applications) :
- portait means as is,
- landscape rotated 90 °.

As I have done this test with a pdf sheet being curious I opened the sheet with
acroread and decided to print it and it is exactly the same : the sheet being
built as landscape is correctly printed if you leave portrait checked.

So portrait and landscape in printer settings have different meanings than in
the page setting of applications creating the page :
- in printer setting portrait leaves the page as is (lanscape correctly
printed), whereas landscape force printer to print the page in a 90° direction
compared to what you expect to get.

At the end of the day all this is very confusing and I simply suggest the
following :
- like in acroread show the page as is (landfscape or portait as built by the
creating application),
- but to improve user comprehension add another icon for the page as printed
depending of which radio button checked.

Like tghis everybody will be happy.
Thanks.

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