paper orientation

[Scott Sullivan]

On 04/24/2013 01:52 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> I rarely use speeadsheets, so I'm not to good at them.
>
> Often they are wider than they are tall.  Like the one I just did with
> Libreoffice.  So I do a print preview and get stuff falling off the right
> side of a portrait mode page.  I go to "format page" (on print preview
> still), tab "page" and select "Orientation" "Landscape".  The print
> preview looks just fin, so I press the "Print file directly" icon on print
> preview.  And my page comes out in portrait mode, with some columns
> missing.  Why?  What's the fix?

So I've notice this behaviour in more then one application outside of 
{Open|Libre}Office, notably kOrganizer when I print my calendars.

I haven't looked hard enough to find an answer, but I do have reliable 
work around. Print to PDF, verify that it's in landscape, then print the 
pdf.

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Scott Sullivan
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