[Scribus] Printing Landscape - again

[Morten Langlo]

Atlantic Tech Solutions  <tech at atlantictechsolutions.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 08:06, Morten Langlo wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> just cannot get landscape-printing work with scribus 1.0.1  on Redhat 
>> 7.3 and Qt-3.1.2
>>  or Qy-3.2.1, (because of the mails about defective Qt libs, I compiled 
>> it myselv)
>> I use LPRng for printing.
>> 
>> Am I the only one left with this problem, I did not see any mails about 
>> it in august and september?
>> 
>> Morten
>
> There were issues around the time of the release candidates to 1.0 and
> Franz did put in some fixes. But not with 1.0.1+
>
> I must say LPRng and printconf-gui in RH 7.x almost made me swear off RH
> completely. 
>
> No matter how well I swore at it, as fluently as possible in as many
> languages I can muster, printing to my simple HP inkjet was entirely
> dependent on the whims of the gods. *Especially* with Scribus.
>
> Once RH 7.3 had CUPS, LPRng and printconf-gui were never to be seen
> again.
>
> You can get updated official RH cups 1.14 from here : ftp28t2.newaol.com
> a very fast mirror for redhat.
>
> plato.unl.edu has 1.15  look in the /apt/7.3/RPMS/rex directory
>
> These are build by Rex Dieter who is part of the Fedora project and
> started KDE-Redhat. His RPM's are usually very well done and stable. I
> run all my own stuff with his packages for KDE exclusively.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Peter

No it did not. CUPS do the same on my system - but thanks

morten


Morten Langlo
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