is landscape available for lno3r PostScript printer?

Frederick M. Avolio avolio at decuac.DEC.COM
Tue Jun 25 02:53:19 AEST 1991


In article <45095 at netnews.upenn.edu>, lau at desci.wharton.upenn.edu (Yan K. Lau) writes:
|>Subject line says it all.  One of our users notice that the -Olandscape
|>switch to the lpr command was not working.  The output was still coming
|>out in portrait mode.  We have a DEC LN03R PostScript printer attached.


I haven't looked real hard at the code, but it is a fact that the
LN03R filter does *not* understand -Olandscape.  It is clear from the 
source code that it is written wrong.  (Sorry, probably not supposed
to make these public statements. Forget I said anything.)  I don't
recall -- either it is not supported in the code or it is always
overwritten.  In any event, if you want landscape specify -w132
and it will default to landscape.  I.E.,

	lpr -Pyourprinter -w132 filename

Now, this doesn't help if you are using the Motif Print Widget which
does not pass width but does pass -O values.  The only solution I
see there is to 1) write a front end that handles this (translates
-Olandscape to -w132) or 2) fix the LN03R filter.

I will submit an SPR...

Fred



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