Bug 68914 - "mpage -2H xxx.ps | lpr" doesn't go landscape
Summary: "mpage -2H xxx.ps | lpr" doesn't go landscape
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: cups
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
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: 76419 76427 76857 78721 78746 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-15 21:57 UTC by Horst H. von Brand
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-01-22 10:39:34 UTC
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2002-07-15 21:57:58 UTC 
Description of Problem:
Printing side-by-side using mpage -2H prints the 2 pages in portrait, not landscape.
cups enabled, printer is a HP Laserjet 4000 connected to the network.
ghostscript shows the file fine

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


How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mpage -2H xxx.ps > xxx-2.ps
2. lpr xxx-2.ps
3. 

Actual Results:
Pages are printed in portrait (doesn fit paper, obviously), not landscape

Expected Results:
Landscape printing.


Additional Information:
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2002-10-07 11:48:22 UTC 
I've seen this too.
Comment 2 Carlos Rodrigues 2002-10-11 23:06:30 UTC 
I'm seeing this with RedHat 8.0 also. Every landscape postscript file I throw at
cups gets printed in portrait. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880
CUPS+gimp-print driver.
Comment 3 H.Breimer 2002-10-12 12:48:56 UTC 
Just installed box 8.0. Same problem. Workaround?
Comment 4 Carlos Rodrigues 2002-10-18 20:02:55 UTC 
I've tried everytinh I remember (with all the available printer drivers etc.) to
no avail. This is really bad...
Comment 5 Carlos Rodrigues 2002-10-19 14:51:00 UTC 
Picked up the cups SRPM from cd5 and replaced the 1.1.15 tarball with 1.1.16 and
it is working now (can print landscape again).
Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2002-10-21 15:57:58 UTC 
*** Bug 76419 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Tim Waugh 2002-10-22 08:25:43 UTC 
*** Bug 76427 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 André Johansen 2002-10-23 07:19:54 UTC 
I have a box upgraded from Red Hat 7.3/CUPS, and I see the same problem; it 
was able to print landscape before the upgrade, but not afterwards. 
 
I'll try the upgrade to 1.1.16.
Comment 9 Tim Waugh 2002-10-23 08:28:57 UTC 
You probably want to wait for 1.1.17, due out any day now.
Comment 10 giulioo 2002-10-30 09:33:44 UTC 
*** Bug 76857 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Lars Munch 2002-11-07 08:14:44 UTC 
A fix for this bug can be found here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155534
I have applied this to the cups source rpm, and I got landscape printing again.

I have uploaded some RPMs on http://lwb1.it.dtu.dk/~lmc/rpms/ for those who can
wait for redhat 8.1 :-)
Comment 12 Tim Waugh 2002-11-28 11:07:36 UTC 
*** Bug 78721 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Tim Waugh 2002-11-28 17:55:42 UTC 
*** Bug 78746 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Need Real Name 2002-12-04 20:18:10 UTC 
Grabbing cups-1.1.16-1.i386.rpm from the RawHide 1.0 distribution on rpmfind.net
fixed it for me.
Comment 15 Jos Vos 2002-12-05 16:34:06 UTC 
Will an errata package be release for RH 8.0?  It is a pretty serious problem in
some office environments...
Comment 16 Tim Waugh 2002-12-05 16:36:01 UTC 
I'd like to wait for at least 1.1.17 before issuing any advisory.  I'll keep
this open as a reminder.
Comment 17 André Johansen 2003-01-22 10:32:49 UTC 
This seems to have been fixed with the recent cups-1.1.17-0.2 release; 
I'm able to print in landscape mode through KDE now.
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