LibreOffice will NOT print in landscape ....

[bicol_willem]

.. Not here that is (on Mrs.'s Gnome install), using a Epson T13 printer.
The things goes "processing" for ever and ever ....
Any suggestions or similar experiences out there?

For those in the know I saved a debug-output which one can get here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8608551/EpsonT13-Landscape-error.txt

Prints fine in setting "portrait" (annoying stuff!).

Yes, we set the printer for printing in landscape as well as the format under LibreOffice. Is this the smell of a bug? .....  

Edit: Forgot to mention it only refuses to print long sheets (13 x 8.5) as landscape. It does A4 

[cwchia]

I have similar problem with 2 of my PCs running 2011, connected to a Ricoh Aficio MP 3500 on my LAN.

I found a solution, albeit a temporary one.

What I did was to change the setting in Printer Administration : Fi8le - Printer Settings-Devices and make sure that the "Printer Language type" is set to "Postscript (level from driver)".

The problem with this is that the setting will not stick and also I cannot solve similar problem when printing in KDE.

There for I suspect that the problem comes from the driver settings or the PPD files but I do not know how to fix it.

Do you have problem printing landscape in other applications outside LO?

[bicol_willem]

To answer your last question first: Yes, also browser pages will not print landscape correct (malformed).

Edit: For the heck of it I went testing again and it did print landscape in Firefox. At least I lost somehow that glitch. Encouraged I moved on to LO and tried again to print landscape (on the very slow Epson T13).... It worked from our little lappy EeePC 701! Surprise, surprise! Now I got to wait till tomorrow to try the PC at school and the T13 there next to the Canon MP160. Wondering never ends...... I can't figure out as to why it works now   Why this laptop and not the PC? That PC appears to run fine...   Same KDE be it that this lappie has a "meager" (had to trim it to make it fit) version due to lack of HDD space. Does the job though it seems. However.... Calc doesn't print any columns or rows (Nothing but the figures and text). Sigh. End Edit

When I export within LO to PDF it does print landscape but again not in a correct format. LO has reach the level of "useless" to me, having to ask someone to print my files on a Windows laptop, using Office 2007, go figure my enjoyment!
I have not tried other apps as these are not relevant to my goal: print in landscape documents produced by LO.
I thought at first it might be the printer (Epson T13 which has a very VERY poor Linux driver). So I hooked up an proven good printer for Linux, Canon MP160 (has always worked great till some time ago) only to find out that also that one didn't print landscape anymore.   Printing landscape simply ends up as portrait printed.
Something in printing has become real bad. It started some time ago with HP drivers and since then it is every time something else lately. But this is real silly for this is such a basic thing.
I have done all I could think of from upgrading LO (which led me to the lomanager problem but got around that via manual install. Pinoc's instructions were very helpful at this btw), to reinstalling everything "printing" as well as java and of course reinstalling the printers several times.
I can add that during testing printing in landscape the Epson sometimes actually do so but only as long as it is simple text (a few words) and on A4 only.
And this version 3.4.2 supposed to be ready for the big boys? Nagh.....
It's a pain. It can't also read properly docx files which to my regret are really out there in numbers.
I got to install either a Windows Office (under wine) but after 12 year Linux I hate to face this trouble or maybe try Softmaker. I don't know right now for it is all too silly to be true imho.
What amazes me most is that obviously no-one is bothered by this (I see no complaints on the board until you came along). Reminds me on the ignorance of video cam support (lack of) several years ago.
Well to make a too long story short, even LO looks and runs fine it is still heavily disappointing me.

(Pfwew ....... end of rant!)  

[cwchia]

To answer your last question first: Yes, also browser pages will not print landscape correct (malformed).

For the heck of it I went testing again and it did print landscape in Firefox. At least I lost somehow that glitch...

How did you do that? I am facing the reverse. AS I said I can now print Landscape in LO but still having trouble printing landscape in KDE using FF or Okular or anything else. I tried opening a pdf file in landscape using LO via PDF import extension and it prints well now, provided I change the setting as mentioned in my earlier post.

That setting change do not stick, no matter what I try 

Encouraged I moved on to LO and tried again to print landscape (on the very slow Epson T13).... It worked from our little lappy EeePC 701! Surprise, surprise! Now I got to wait till tomorrow to try the PC at school and the T13 there next to the Canon MP160. Wondering never ends.....[/i]. I can't figure out as to why it works now   Why this laptop and not the PC? That PC appears to run fine...   Same KDE be it that this lappie has a "meager" (had to trim it to make it fit) version due to lack of HDD space. Does the job though it seems. However.... Calc doesn't print any columns or rows (Nothing but the figures and text). Sigh.

Printing under linux is really no joke, a real pain in the A**

...(Pfwew ....... end of rant!)   ...

am listening... 

[cwchia]

Update:

Managed to make the setting stick by selecting "Postscript Level 2" instead of "Postscript (level from driver)"

[bicol_willem]

Tomorrow I dedicate to printing in landscape on various machines and printers.
It will be "make or brake"  to me. A OS that cannot print is .... well, useless?

"Printing under linux is really no joke, a real pain in the A**"

Well, that wasn't always like that. I have printed years in a row with very little problems.
It is just lately that we lost a lot of , call it quality, in printing.

BTW, "how do I print in FF"?  Simply print and go for landscape and it workszzz.
Don't ask me why but it does make me happy for it remains that way only a problem in LO. Don't let me start on printing Calc!
Next to mall formats, I also encounter total "ignorance" from LO.
Like: I print and the darn thing goes processing...... and processing (probably for ever).
Anyway, this simple task printing is a shame by all standards and needs a bunch of specialists worldwide to make up for lost grounds we once had covered.
Will report results of printing tests.

[bicol_willem]

Results:

Going any and every extra mile....
Newly downloaded latest KDE
Fully updated it
Installed LO
During initial tests (simple texts) it worked!
But only to find out later that existing documents will not print (landscape that is)
Giving up as LO seems really NOT ready for production

A few messages I get for those interested or still hopeful:






Write a few full lines landscape and this is what we get:



After too many trials definitely sick of LO here 

[cwchia]

Did you try configure the printer using LO's Printer Administration? at least that works for me.

[bicol_willem]

LO's Printer Administration?

What should I look for there?

I had a look at Tools > Print but found nothing really helpful there. It's set to print with printer (of course).

LO's Printer Administration?

Am I looking on the wrong spot or oversee something here? 

But .. I do understand that you do not have the same problems (any longer)?  That is weird, to say the least, for I got this problem with landscape printing all over the place. 3 different printers and 3 different computers behave all the same ...  Hence I still look with Argus eyes at LO. (Meanwhile I can't use the same for the jobs on hands).

[cwchia]

LO's Printer Adminstration is buried within the 'Office' Sub-menu. Or you can execute it from

Code: [Select]

/usr/bin/libreoffice3.4-printeradmin
In fact I am STILL having problem printing in landscape in other apps like Okular

[AS]

Results:

Going any and every extra mile....
Newly downloaded latest KDE
Fully updated it
Installed LO
During initial tests (simple texts) it worked!
But only to find out later that existing documents will not print (landscape that is)
Giving up as LO seems really NOT ready for production

A few messages I get for those interested or still hopeful:






Write a few full lines landscape and this is what we get:



After too many trials definitely sick of LO here 

Hello bicol_wilem,

the above error messages are all about a cups/ghostscript related issue.

I'm thinking at some conversion issue, from postscript to raster (performed from ghostscript), occurring at some point during the process.

A good test could be try to print to a Postscript printer,  where the raster conversion will be done directly from the printer instead that from computer, thus avoiding the use of gstoraster filter.

AS

[knome]

The default CUPS settings for my Canon printer are A4 Portrait.

When printing in LibreOffice using a non-default format I check that printer Properties are showing the correct format for the job because sometimes it has defaulted to the default and I have to cancel the job and try again. It's usually correct on the second try.

Example:

LibreOffice Calc > Format > Page ... Long Bond & Landscape
LibreOffice Calc > File > Print ... printer Properties ... A4 & Portrait - incorrect, Cancel job
LibreOffice Calc > File > Print ... printer Properties ... American Foolscap & Landscape - correct, Print job

Note the slight oddity of the paper size being Long Bond in the Format Page dialog and American Foolscap in the printer Properties dialog  

I don't know if my comments will help solve the problem but I've test printed a LibreOffice spreadsheet using Long Bond/American Foolscap Landscape and it worked perfectly.

[frazelle09]

Have had the same problems with my Samsung CLP-315 laser printer.  Just a few days ago we had the landscape printing problem again and i finally "fixed" it by selecting Portrait.

Too strange for me.

Have a great morning! 

[Jaycoke]

Update:

Managed to make the setting stick by selecting "Postscript Level 2" instead of "Postscript (level from driver)"

I was able to print Landscape after selecting this also.

From Libre Office Printer Administration (Persistent)
Properties... (button)
Device (Tab)
Printer Language Type (drop down box)... Post Script Level 2

From LO Writer (Not Persistent)
File (Menu)
Print...
Properties... (to the right of details)
Device (Tab)
Printer Language Type (drop down box)... Post Script Level 2


Errors that I was getting were;
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster failed"
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed"

[bicol_willem]

Update:

Managed to make the setting stick by selecting "Postscript Level 2" instead of "Postscript (level from driver)"

I was able to print Landscape after selecting this also.

From Libre Office Printer Administration (Persistent)
Properties... (button)
Device (Tab)
Printer Language Type (drop down box)... Post Script Level 2

From LO Writer (Not Persistent)
File (Menu)
Print...
Properties... (to the right of details)
Device (Tab)
Printer Language Type (drop down box)... Post Script Level 2


Errors that I was getting were;
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/gstoraster failed"
"/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed"

Same here with these settings. Printing landscape using LO but .... out of format.  I.e. not centered or not complete.
Here is still a job to do for the printer guru's.