problems printing landscape with libreoffice and suse 12.1

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on opensuse 12.1 plain fresh install and tumbleweed
kde4.7.x and 4.8.x
libreoffice 3.4.5 and 3.4.4
with printers samsung clp-320n(network cable) and clp-300(usb cable)
drivers from The Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository
used alien on this Index of /suldr/pool/debian/extra
to convert in rpm

on opensuse 12.1 I installed the official Samsung unified Linux driver, I met problems to print with both the printers;
no printing pdf, printing double and so on;
so I tried to install on another pc linux mint;
I installed the drivers from http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/smfpv3.html;
everything went well and I didn’t faced any problem on printing;
libreoffice 3.4.4 can print landscape!!!

so I converted drivers from The Samsung Unified Linux Driver Repository to rpm with alien;
I installed on opensuse 12.1 by yast;
the printing was very better with this drivers than the samsung official ones;
but in suse 12.1 I cannot print landscape with libreoffice 3.4.4 and 3.4.5!!!
in libreoffice it shows everything correctly in landscape, but when I print the sheet is in portrait;
if in libreoffice I print on file, it creates a correct pdf file in landscape and when I print from okular the printing is ok in landscape.

after all this tests my suspect is that the problem is something in suse 12.1, am I wrong?? is a bug or I can solve?

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Open any LibreOffice app and go to File=>Printer Settings=>Properties=>Device tab. Is the “Printer Language type” set to PDF? If so, it’s probably https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44664. The workaround is to change the printer language to Postscript (level from driver).

See this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/forums/english/get-technical-help-here/applications/472640-libreoffice-doesnt-print-landscape-files-properly.html

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Thanks it works now :-)) as I said in the thread you suggested me, I think the problem isn’t on libreoffice, becouse I installed the same libreoffice on linuxmint and it print correctly in landscape , may be the problem is in suse??

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It’s not only openSUSE, because the bug report and its duplicates have reports from users of Fedora, PCLinuxOS, Arch Linux, Scientific Linux, and Gentoo. But comment #19 in that bug notes that so far no Ubuntu/Debian derivatives have reported the problem.

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Thanks so much for this answer. This has been driving me crazy for weeks!