Orientation should be an option in gnome-print dialog

[Alex Launi]

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
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The native gnome-print application is missing a critical feature: The ability to change the orientation of the paper you are printing on. Some applications such as firefox have this implemented in other places, this however is not ideal as some applications do not have it implemented at all. This is a printing issue and as such should be handled in the printing dialog rather than in an obscure menu option elsewhere.

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

I assume this is GtkPrint, see File>Print Setup. If it doesn't exist, it's a bug in the application.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

setting to wishlist, is that something really useful?

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

In my opinion it's a necessary feature! It's very redundant to make the application developers implement this over and over, and when they don't it's a major pain when you need to print something in a different orientation. For example the gnome keyboard layout manager, it doesn't have a file menu to switch the orientation, but it would be nicer if you could print out a big diagram of the keyboard in landscape orientation, instead one is limited by the portrait.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

gtkprint has an api to set the orientation, the issue might be due to applications rather

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is a bug on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551726 about that too

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is fixed in karmic now