Hi Haines,

On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 15:12 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
> I have bsd-lpr. I can print a text file with landscape orientation
> with $ lpr -o landscape file.txt
>
> My problem is that I cannot print pdf files in landscape
> orientation. $ lpr -o landscape file.pdf does nothing.
>
> I don't want to make landscape the default CUPS orientation.
>
> Atril rotates the display of the PDF, but not the content of the
> file in relation to the page when printed.
>
> The qpdfview utility also can rotate the display of text but
> when printed the effect is simply move text up on the page.
>
> I don't see how poppler-utils can be of help.
>
> How does one print a PDF with landscape orientattion?
>
Isn't the page orientation used encoded in the pdf?

To change it, other than by shrinking the page down so it fits on the
paper in landscape orientation I think you would need to use a pdf
editor to reflow the content.

If you have a document or image that you are converting to a pdf then
if you format the document or image landscape then the exported pdf
will also be landscape.

--
Marjorie