Re: landscape printing and viewing

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On 09/09/18 23:55, Simon Albrecht wrote:
> On 09.09.2018 23:13, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Kieren MacMillan<address@hidden>  writes:
>>> Hi Martin,
>>>> \paper {
>>>>   #(set-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)
>>>> }
>>> If I’m not mistaken, the correct incantation is
>>>
>>> \paper {
>>>   #(set-paper-size "a4landscape")
>>> }
>> That sets_only_  the papersize, not the orientation.  For the screen it
>> might be what you want.  Whether your printer driver is smart enough to
>> figure out what you want is a different question then.
> 
> It has to be, doesn’t it? #(set-paper-size "a4landscape" 'landscape)
> doesn’t help, because then it’s displayed wrong by both evince and
> PyQtPdfViewer (I don’t know its exact name, the one in Frescobaldi…).
> Can’t test printing right now.
> Although: I get furious every time I feed an A4 page into a normal copy
> machine (at my university) the wrong way and the damn thing isn’t able
> to figure it out, but goes exactly with the orthogonal relation and
> creates a cropped print. This is 2018, man… and that’s still happening.
> 
fwiw, I use the

        #(set-default-paper-size "a4" 'landscape)

syntax and everything works just fine and normal for me. I use okular as
my pdf viewer. It seems to be a hard thing to get right, however,
because that cropped print you mention, I seem to get quite a lot with
firefox. If the damn web-page won't print properly losing stuff to the
right, I often select landscape, only to discover the paper prints
landscape fine, but the print itself is still cropped to portrait width!!!

Cheers,
Wol