Hi,

Marjorie Roome via Dng writes:

> 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.

I don't do a lot of printing and even less modifying of PDF files but
perhaps pdftopdf can be of help here.

It's in the cups-filters-core-drivers package.

> 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.

Hope this helps,
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