[scribus] Landscape printing

[Stefan]

Am 5. Dezember 2011 07:32 schrieb ale rimoldi <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch>:
> hi
>
>> I think we do users a disservice by having the suggestion to print
>> from Adobe Reader as the only option we provide when someone is
>> having trouble. If this is the case, perhaps printing should be
>> completely removed from Scribus.
>>
>> I do a fair amount of printing directly from Scribus, since I am
>> frequently not interested in the highest quality printout, and don't
>> want to bother with the added steps of exporting to PDF, then opening
>> with Adobe Reader just to print a page.
>
> afaict, this is not about better or worse quality.
>
> printing directly or through the pdf should give you the same quality.
> (if you ever manage to correctly print)
>
> in my eyes, it's more about struggling for hours to get your printer to
> work with scribus (even for landscape pages) or just use the pdf reader.

+1

I never use the print option from scribus as it is buggy as hell, I
can not get the correct page orientation etc.

So: Always output to a pdf and print it with Reader. It will look great.

If you need more comfort, write a script for this.

>
> and since most jobs created from scribus are not printed on your own
> local printer (pdf distributed over the net, print shop, ...) i think
> it's not such a bad idea to have a workflow that goes through a pdf
> file.
>
>
>> The lesson of this is that you should be able in most cases to figure
>> out the settings for a particular OS, Scribus version, and printer.
>> If you don't care to go to this bother, then the PDF-Adobe Reader
>> option is the more certain backup.
>
> exactly. and for the beginner it's better to tell her to just use a pdf
> reader and not lose hours trying to setup the printer.
>
> definitively not the best solution one can think of... but a better
> user experience than spending hours to -- eventually -- manage to setup
> your printer before you see for the first time the result of your work!
>
>
>
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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-- 
Gruß, Stefan