[scribus] Landscape printing

[Craig Bradney]

On 12/6/11 12:35 AM, Jan Schrewe wrote:
> On 6 December 2011 00:21, JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:
> 
>> Le 05/12/2011 07:58, Peter Nermander a écrit :
>>
>>  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 am afraid it is a bit more general than just page scaling or rotation.
>>
>> I dont print often, but i remember on windows that the printed pages
>> once had a white large vertical stripe instead of the right third of the
>> page.
>>
>> Right now, on Ubuntu, when trying to print, i get nothing out of the
>> printer,
>> except a red flashing led on the Brother HL5250DN laserprinter
>> (strangely, scribus nor linux dont detect the problem).
>>
> 
> I doubt there is a "real" (meaning invalid postscript) problem with what
> you are trying to print. Printers usually discard the print job more or
> less silently if they run out memory while rendering the page(s) they try
> to raster. In the past I've had huge problems with postscript data taken
> directly from ghostscript. They somehow do a horrible job on keeping the
> generated postscript small and saving printer memory. Especially if there
> are images involved. Strangely the PDF readers usually create stuff the
> printer can handle much better. Though I don't understand enough about
> postscript to really understand what's going on. But if you print to file
> and compare the file size I'm pretty sure the ghostscript generated files
> are mostly *a lot* bigger then the ones from the good PDF readers.
> 
> 

Don't forget, your printer needs to be able to understand postscript to be able to print it.

Make sure you have the right driver / PPD file installed for the printer.

Craig