GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 502934
cannot print landscape no matter what
Last modified: 2007-12-11 21:00:45 UTC
I'm currently on Fedora Core 7, completely up to date, and running gnumeric 1.6.3 No matter what I do, I cannot print landscape. I've tried going to 2 different printers even. The first time I go into print setup, it defaults to A4 even though the default is actually US Letter. At this point, switching back to the shell from which I launched gnumeric, I see this: $ gnumeric Reading file:///home/rafael/Documents/my-file-landscape.gnumeric Model not found, discarding config ** (gnumeric:21394): WARNING **: Could not find child for option "PhysicalSize" with id "Letter" ** (gnumeric:21394): WARNING **: Could not set value of "PhysicalSize" to "Letter" I go back to gnumeric print setup, hit Cancel, then go into print setup again. This time it correctly shows the default US Letter (with no new messages in the shell). But then I try to print landscape to my laser printer, but instead of the bottom left corner of the print being anchored to the bottom right corner of the paper and printing up the page, the bottom left corner of the print is anchored to the bottom LEFT corner of the paper and printing ACROSS the page, only part of which gets printed on the first page, and a second page with the remainder never comes. If I copy the laser printer entry in the linux printer setup and set its values to landscape and choose that driver from gnumerics printer selection, I see on the paper tab that it shows the orientation as portrait. Switching that to landscape and printing gives me a printout anchored to the correct corner and printing up the page, but stops at 8.5". And then I see in the shell two more messages: ** (gnumeric:21394): WARNING **: could not set the value of Settings.Document.Filter, node not found ** (gnumeric:21394): WARNING **: could not set the value of Settings.Document.Filter, node not found When I leave the gnumeric page orientation at landscape, choose my regular laser printer, and go to the paper tab, it's set to landscape. If I choose portrait there, I get a printout like the first time except that the top left corner of the print is anchored to the top left corner of the paper and prints across, but this time it spits out a second page. If I choose 11x17 in gnumeric, I don't get any better results. I'm tired of having work-arounds for gnumeric that only work in particular versions of gnumeric, but would be pacified yet again if I could have one that works for THIS version. I left the severity selection of this as normal, but for me it is a blocker. I can *NOT* get the printout I need! I got these same kind of error messages with previous versions of gnumeric on previous versions of Fedora Core, and even on Red Hat 9 and earlier. And each linux version has been a fresh install with a fresh install of gnumeric. Every time I choose a different printer in gnumeric's print dialog, the shell shows a new line: ** (gnumeric:21946): WARNING **: could not set the value of Settings.Document.Filter, node not found
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 301494 ***
*** Bug 503094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***