paper orientation

[William Park]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 01:52:26PM -0400, 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?
> 
> Note: it didn't take two pages to print the whole width.  Which makes me 
> think that the spreadsheet really did think it was printing landscape.
> 
> The printer is a Brother DCP-7065DN connected to the LAN. The printer 
> driver is proprietary, but fits into CUPs.

This happens with Firefox printing also.  I reduce magnification (from
print preview, not the webpage window) until I can see all the content.
:-)
-- 
William
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