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<font face="Liberation Serif">Here are some observations about
printing landscape orientation directly from Scribus.<br>
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If you have a page oriented in a landscape fashion in Scribus,
when you print in a normal (i.e., portrait) manner, it will print
in a landscape way. In other words, the right hand side of the
page as displayed comes out the printer first. If you set for a
landscape mode of printing, it comes out the printer as a portrait
printing, i.e., the top of your landscape-oriented page comes out
the printer first. This seems to be true for whatever OS you are
using.<br>
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On Fedora, for the most part I have to use an alternative printer
command (I use lpr), and in this case you see a similar
phenomenon, using either the default option (equivalent to '-o
portrait'), or use '-o landscape'. A landscape-oriented page comes
out in a landscape way (right side of the page first) if you use
'-o portrait', but a portrait-oriented page requires you to
specify '-o landscape' for the page to come out in a landscape way
(right side of the page first).<br>
<br>
So although it's quirky, it is possible to control the printing
orientation. You just have to experiment.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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Addendum - more weirdness<br>
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If you have a page already in a portrait orientation, and you go
to File > Document Setup and switch to landscape, this will
only apply to new pages you create, and does not affect the
existing page(s).<br>
So I just now started with a one-page document in portrait
orientation, switched to landscape in Document Settings, then
added a page. Then I printed the entire document with 'lpr -o
landscape' from Scribus. The first page came out right side of the
page first, the second page came out bottom side first!<br>
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