GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 272640
Page orientation gets reset when entering Print dialog
Last modified: 2009-03-01 16:29:07 UTC
opening the calendar, going to month view. go to "file | print preview". the print preview comes up and everything looks like expected, but after the preview has been already correctly drawn, the calendar gets redrawn and turned around by 90 degrees so that the paper's orientation is landscape, but the calendar's orientation is portrait (see attached screenshot, it's a bit blurry because i don't want everybody to see my private appointments :- ). if i print this to a pdf, it prints the entire calendar on paper, but 180 degress turned, so that the heading "february 2005" is on the left side of the paper, and the paper and the calendar (thank god! ;-) is in portrait format. ...so it seems like the print preview has nothing to do with what i get when printing. :-/ by the way this does not happen when i get a print preview of day or week view. setting priority to minor since it works, but it *really* confuses the user. suse9.2 evolution-2.1.5.0.200502091805-0.snap.ximian.10.1 gtk2-2.4.9-10 gnome-print-0.36-797 libbonobo-2.6.2-3 libbonoboui-2.6.1-3 libgnomeprint-2.8.0-3 libgnomeprint-devel-2.8.0-3 libgnomeprintui-2.8.0-3 libgnomeprintui-devel-2.8.0-3 libgimpprint-4.2.7-7
Created attachment 44799 [details] print preview of month view, calendar is protrait and paper is landscape orientation
cannot reproduce this anymore on suse9.3/gnome2.10.
I'm experiencing a very similar problem to the original one described. I am in ev 2.4.1 on Breezy. To me, the problem seems like a usability issue. When I try to print a calendar in landscape mode ev should know better then to try to print straight with a landscape background like the screenshot. I have to know (as a user) that I want landscape AND that I need to rotate the calendar 90 degrees. I tried changing the settings a couple of times and the setting changes don't stick consistently. Right now, my settings are correct, rotate 90 landscape, but print button stopped working. Frustrating...
updating version number
*** Bug 340319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
i can reproduce this again in evolution 2.7.1.
*** Bug 345348 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
another confirmation on irc on 2.6.3-FC5. can i ask someone to look at this? chen, perhaps? :-/
*** Bug 360048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 370498 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ubuntu edgy bug about that: https://launchpad.net/evolution/+bug/70666
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149778 is a similar bug on GNOME 2.20 "Binary package hint: evolution ii evolution 2.12.0-0ubuntu4 groupware suite with mail client and organizer with current version, I can't print landscape calendars, as the PageSetup get's reset to portrait mode when entering "Print" dialog; e.g. from calendar month view: 1. File->Page Setup: set Orientation=Landscape & Apply 2. File->Print Preview: shows proper landscape layout as expected 3. File->Page Setup: checking that Orientation is still set to landscape (it is) 4. File->Print->select "Print To File" printer 5. File->Print Preview: shows portrait landscape! :-( 6. File->Page Setup: ...Orientation was reset to portrait mode! :-("
(In reply to comment #12) > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149778 is a similar bug on GNOME 2.20 > > "Binary package hint: evolution > > ii evolution 2.12.0-0ubuntu4 groupware suite with mail client and organizer > > with current version, I can't print landscape calendars, as the PageSetup get's > reset to portrait mode when entering "Print" dialog; > e.g. from calendar month view: > > 1. File->Page Setup: set Orientation=Landscape & Apply > 2. File->Print Preview: shows proper landscape layout as expected > > 3. File->Page Setup: checking that Orientation is still set to landscape (it > is) > 4. File->Print->select "Print To File" printer > 5. File->Print Preview: shows portrait landscape! :-( > 6. File->Page Setup: ...Orientation was reset to portrait mode! :-(" additional notes: it does occur for other components of evolution as well (i.e. printing mails, task lists, ...) if print directly from the preview at step 2 (i.e. by using the print button from the preview's toolbar), I get it printed out in landscape mode as expected
*** Bug 504327 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updating.
*** Bug 374702 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I believe this is fixed in Evolution 2.24. Can you please retest?
can't reproduce