Bug 1099428

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #768811 +++

Description of problem:
Printing a landscape document prints in portrait. Also applies to the brochure option.
Preview is correct.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.4.4

How reproducible:
Happens every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a document that has the page orientation set to Landscape
2.Go to Print
3. Check Properties are set to Landscape and if applicable go to Page Layout and check Brochure is selected
4. Click Print
  
Actual results:
Document prints in portrait showing the left hand part of the document with the right side cut off.

Expected results:
Output to be landscape

Additional info:
Paper size is A4, Printer is Brother HL-5340D Laser with duplex.
Same document prints as expected from Fedora 15 and Libreoffice 3.3.4.1

--- Additional comment from Till Kamppeter on 2013-12-04 14:53:03 CET ---

The real problem is in Poppler, it is that "pdftops -origpagesizes" does not take into account the rotation fields of the input PDF pages. If pdftopdf encounters a landscape-oriented page and the printer takes paper only short-edge-first (portrait), pdftopdf rotates the page by setting its rotation field (increment value by 90 degrees), which is much more efficient than rotating all the content of the page. All viewers (evince, gs, gv) take the rotation field into account and show the pages correctly rotated. In "pdftops -origpagesizes" this was forgotten and so in its output all pages are unrotated, leading to the wrong printouts mentioned by the reporter of this bug.

Dropping "-origpagesizes" in the pdftops filter of cups-filters is only a workaround, not a fix.

I have fixed Poppler with a patch. See

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72312

Therefore I have not taken the patch attached to this bug upstream into cups-filters. cups-filters I have modified to always use "-origpagesizes" now as it works correctly with my Poppler fix. This I have done in cups-filters upstream BZR rev. 7131.

Please apply my patch of the Poppler bug report to your Poppler package and also apply the BZR rev. 7131 patch to the cups-filters package.

Please reopen this bug and assign it to both cups-filters and poppler.

--- Additional comment from Bill McGonigle on 2013-12-04 17:44:13 CET ---

Nice work, Till!  We'll probably need two new bugs here, one to track the upstream poppler release with this patch in it, and then a cups-filter bug to revert the change here, when that poppler release comes downstream to Fedora, the latter bug depending on the former.