GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 358773
Printing to landscape could be simplified
Last modified: 2009-10-11 08:39:05 UTC
Currently, printing a landscape document requires two steps: 1. File->Page Setup, set page orientation to landscape. 2. File->Print, Paper tab, set page orientation to landscape. I one misses a step, the printed output will not be as expected. For example, the document will be printed as landscape, but the paper will be feed in portrait mode. This results in the document falling off the right side of the paper. This process should be reduced to one step to avoid confusion.
*** Bug 334719 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This really looks like a libgnomeprint bug.
I'm also confused by the two Feed Orientation options (in Gnumeric, at least). That makes 4 different ways to specify Landscape.
Created attachment 91470 [details] Forget page 2 (doesn't happen) and drop the print on page one to 0.75" off the bottom This attachment is to illustrate my description of my print problem. Sometimes, a description is not adequate. (I hope what I typed before I got to this page is not gone.)
Comment on attachment 91470 [details] Forget page 2 (doesn't happen) and drop the print on page one to 0.75" off the bottom (I'm glad I had the forsight to save a copy of these comments before clicking the button to add an attachment.) My problem /appears/ to be similar to this one, but just a little different. This may be a different bug, but I'll leave that determination to another. Even though I select landscape in both places, I still get a kind of landscape printout on a portrait page, both aligned at the bottom left corner. The printout would be perfect if I could feed the paper through sideways, assuming that the printer could print that widely. As it is, the top three inches of the paper is completely blank and the right three inches of print fell into oblivion. I chose the option to print to PDF and surprisingly, it shows the error, sort of. The only difference is that in the PDF, the printout is centered vertically whereas on paper, the print is just a margin (0.75 inches) off the bottom. (I'll attach the PDF file.) The print preview is always perfect, but the printout is not. No matter what I try, I cannot get *any* gnome app to print landscape. I have to save gnumeric in gnumeric format to keep my changes, then temporarily save in w95 Xcel format (because OO cannot read gnumeric format), and load that into Open Office spreadsheet and print from there. Every gnome app I've tried to use to print landscape has this problem.
This seems to be resolved in newer versions of GNOME.