Bug 243953 - does not print landscape when pdf is in lansdscape
Summary: does not print landscape when pdf is in lansdscape
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181290
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 0.5.81
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2010-07-08 16:27 UTC by dmoyne
Modified: 2010-10-21 15:43 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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pdf in landscape (112.00 KB, application/pdf)
2010-07-08 16:27 UTC, dmoyne
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Description dmoyne 2010-07-08 16:27:52 UTC
Created attachment 48690 [details]
pdf in landscape

Version:           0.5.81
OS:                Linux

I confimr this bug ; I had to use acrobat reader to do the job ; file used attached

Reproducible: Didn't try




OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.32-23-generic
Compiler: cc
Comment 1 John Hudson 2010-07-31 21:45:59 UTC
This bug is present in 0.10.4 running KDE4.4.4 under openSUSE 11.3.

Okular recognises the PDF as Landscape in Options but prints as Portrait.

This happens every time.
Comment 2 Bastian Senst 2010-10-19 16:20:12 UTC
Could you check if this is bug #181290 ?
If so, you can just set it to portrait in the printing dialog and it will print
fine.
Comment 3 dmoyne 2010-10-21 12:08:53 UTC
Yes it is ; I have built a landscape sheet with Kword saved it in pdf file and it is the same problem with my new distribution (kubuntu Maevrick) with Okular ; if you check landscape in the setting of Okular with a landscape sheet you get portrait printing but as you suggest checking portait then works fine ; so all this is oviously due of action behind buttons ; apparently in the printer setting (common for all KDE applications) :
- portait means as is,
- landscape rotated 90 °.

As I have done this test with a pdf sheet being curious I opened the sheet with acroread and decided to print it and it is exactly the same : the sheet being built as landscape is correctly printed if you leave portrait checked.

So portrait and landscape in printer settings have different meanings than in the page setting of applications creating the page :
- in printer setting portrait leaves the page as is (lanscape correctly printed), whereas landscape force printer to print the page in a 90° direction compared to what you expect to get.

At the end of the day all this is very confusing and I simply suggest the following :
- like in acroread show the page as is (landfscape or portait as built by the creating application),
- but to improve user comprehension add another icon for the page as printed depending of which radio button checked.

Like tghis everybody will be happy.
Thanks.
Comment 4 dmoyne 2010-10-21 12:08:54 UTC
Yes it is ; I have built a landscape sheet with Kword saved it in pdf file and it is the same problem with my new distribution (kubuntu Maevrick) with Okular ; if you check landscape in the setting of Okular with a landscape sheet you get portrait printing but as you suggest checking portait then works fine ; so all this is oviously due of action behind buttons ; apparently in the printer setting (common for all KDE applications) :
- portait means as is,
- landscape rotated 90 °.

As I have done this test with a pdf sheet being curious I opened the sheet with acroread and decided to print it and it is exactly the same : the sheet being built as landscape is correctly printed if you leave portrait checked.

So portrait and landscape in printer settings have different meanings than in the page setting of applications creating the page :
- in printer setting portrait leaves the page as is (lanscape correctly printed), whereas landscape force printer to print the page in a 90° direction compared to what you expect to get.

At the end of the day all this is very confusing and I simply suggest the following :
- like in acroread show the page as is (landfscape or portait as built by the creating application),
- but to improve user comprehension add another icon for the page as printed depending of which radio button checked.

Like tghis everybody will be happy.
Thanks.
Comment 5 Kevin Kofler 2010-10-21 15:43:51 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 181290 ***