313959 - On page print in landscape mode, the page is printed as portrait with cutoff

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[Carl Fürstenberg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20051003 Debian/1.4.99+1.5beta1.dfsg-5 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20051003 Debian/1.4.99+1.5beta1.dfsg-5 Firefox/1.4

When selecting that the page should be printed in landscape mode, it still print the page in portrait, but layout as landscape, so 30% of the page is outside the paper.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Page Setup -> Landscape
2. Print -> Laserjet@:94 (my printer)
3. Print

Actual Results:  
a portrait of a landscape

Expected Results:  
the page rotated as landscape

using the standard cups -> foomatict etc...
I'm not an expert in such system, so please tell me if there might be a settings elswere I should use, my printer is a HP Laserjet 1010 ( HP LaserJet 1010 Foomatic/pxl1010 in cups).

Comment 1

[Akkana Peck]

Confirming. There seems to be no way to print a page in landscape mode on Linux -- it always prints portrait regardless of what you choose in Page Setup. Though I'm not seeing anything cut off; I just see a normal portrait print.

Comment 2

[Kaleb Pederson]

I can confirm this with 3.0b5:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008040514 Firefox/3.0b5

The Print Preview is correct, but the printout is not.  I'll attach an example document.

Comment 3

[Kaleb Pederson]

Attachment: Example of attempt at landscape printing

Comment 4

[camilo]

I can confirm this with 3.0b5!

Comment 5

[camilo]

i use ubuntu.. The only solution is to change the print setting in the ubuntu configuration.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Akkana, is this still happening in most recent versions of FF on Linux?
(please include both FF and Linux version nos)

Comment 7

[Akkana Peck]

Landscape mode has been working for me for quite some time, if I set it in Page Setup before calling Print. (Then I have to put a pref in user.js so it gets set back to portrait later. Why isn't this settable in the print dialog?)

I suspect there may be other settings involved -- I remember that back when I had trouble with this, it worked on some systems and failed on others. I never figured out what settings were involved -- maybe something in the gnome/gtk chain. Camilo's comment about "the ubuntu configuration" seems to agree with that, but I don't know which ubuntu configuration that would be. Maybe Camilo can elaborate.

Comment 8

[u285178]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Landscape mode has been working for me for quite some time, if I set it in Page
> Setup before calling Print. (Then I have to put a pref in user.js so it gets
> set back to portrait later. Why isn't this settable in the print dialog?)

gtk+ 2.18 or later allows the page setup to be settable in the print dialog if gtk_print_operation_set_embed_page_setup() is called.

Comment 9

[Paul Silaghi, QA [:pauly]]

Reproducible with pdf docs (http://samplepdf.com/sample.pdf) on nightly 2013-01-11 on Ubuntu 12.04