Well, I finally, after 3 years, upgraded my laptop to ubuntu 8.04
I was very dissapointed in the printing.
I have an HP Photosmart 7760, and it printed beautifully under ubuntu
5-something (which is what I had)
I couldn't do a lpr -o landscape or portrait, and when I printed pdf
files they were butt-ugly.
I had been fighting it for over a week, and I finally fixed it.
It prints beautifully now.
I say all this above, to share with y'all what I have found out.
1) foomatic - gutenprint was not installed by default, don't know why.
2) i installed hplip (although I probably didn't have to, but since it
works perfectly, I am not un-installing it now)
3) i changed the printer to use the above, instead of the hpijs
4) there is no landscape and portrait options, but there IS
orientation-requested options:
landscape <== orientation-requested=4
portrait <== orientation-requested=3
Now, everything works perfectly, no matter what I print.
I printed from Lyx, Firefox, a PDF file, and both landscape/portrait
text file from a terminal.
Now, I hope I remember when I upgrade to ubuntu 11+ 3 years from now!!!!
Jerry
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Happy Trails!
Jerry (K7AZJ)
Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown
Registered Linux User: 275424
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