[scribus] Landscape printing

Peter Nermander peter at nermander.se
Mon Dec 5 06:58:03 UTC 2011


I haven't followed all the discussions of printer problems in the past
because I haven't had a working printer at home for years so I've
always used PDF export.

But what are the problems people have with printing? As far as I
understand it is almost always related to page scaling and or
rotation? Or are people also having big problems with colors and
fonts?

I don't have much knowledge on how different printing systems work, I
think that on Linux postscript is what applications generally output
and then the printing system uses for example ghostscript to convert
that to something the printer "can eat"? I would guess that postscript
also is what is used on OS X?

And if Scribus can output a PDF that is "correct", I would think that
it can also output postscript that is "correct", so most of these
errors would then be that Scribus integration with the printing system
lacks something telling the printing system how to (not) scale and
rotate the pages?

/Peter



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