Am 02.12.21 um 23:17 schrieb Marjorie Roome via Dng:
> 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.

you need some utility programm
the print spooler will only transferinformation
the -o opition will be transfered to a filter programm (if configured)

https://unix-stackexchange-com.translate.goog/questions/394065/command-line-how-do-you-rotate-a-pdf-file-90-degrees?_x_tr_sl=en&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=sc

alternative you can make a ps (pdf2ps) and use pstops from psutils.

hope that helps,


>> 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.
>