I’ve searched through the forums and don’t seem to find one that matches my problem.
It’s been so long since I’ve had a printer problem, I don’t know what
more to do to figure out this one. Two computers, both running openSUSE
11.4 and WindowMaker and sharing a Samsung ML-2525 printer. When we
select ‘landscape’ from most programs (LibreOffice, Okular, Firefox and
others) it will not print in landscape.
I can print landscape from command line:
lp -o landscape [filename]
and, so far, the only GUI program that prints landscape is the old
Quanta 3+. I was going to setup a second printer to be defaulted to
landscape, but there is no way to set that in YaST->Hardware->Printer
or in CUPS.
I have verified that the correct driver is installed and have even
downloaded (from Samsung) and installed their latest driver – which
was the same version number, anyway.
Everything I found with a web search was either wrong printer driver or
even command line printing not doing landscape. None of them seemed to
mirror my problem. This same printer under 11.3 had no problem with
this. Since we don’t print landscape that often, the command line
option is workable, but not optimal. 
Any ideas where to go with this, next?
I have seen mention of this somewhere before but only in 12.1 L.Office
Users who export to .pdf can then print in landscape
So it’s not quite the same as your problem
I have seen mention of this somewhere before but only in 12.1 L.Office
Users who export to .pdf can then print in landscape
So it’s not quite the same as your problem
Yes, that’s what I have found, too. I save or export the file as Postscript, generally, but tried PDF as well. Same thing, though. I can only print landscape from command line and the old Quanta 3+. The other programs are trying to print landscape but they are not switching orientation 90 degrees…
After I upgraded to LO 3.4, I had a problem with all my landscape documents which I eventually solved by going into Printer Settings and checking Properties on each which usually said Portrait; changing that to Landscape and saving the document solved the problem.
I have never got Okular to print in landscape properly though there is alleged to be a workaround; so I install KPDF from kdegraphics3 which prints landscape perfectly.
Can’t help in any other areas.
The solution for LO is to set the device properties of the printer to Postscript instead of PDF
On 2012-03-12 07:46, knathan54 wrote:
> I’ve searched through the forums and don’t seem to find one that matches
> my problem.
View this thread: http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=472640
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
This didn’t work for me – it would not save the Landscape setting no matter what I tried.
This worked for LO – thanks! Now I just have to figure out the other programs; it will probably be a similar solution.
This thread had the answer, but I missed it among all the replies until I saw Knurpht’s reply, above.
Thanks to all those that replied! Very helpful!