Re: Fedora 18 won't print in Landscape mode.

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On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 08:48:43PM +1030, Tim wrote:
> By way of illustrative example, if the large rectangle represents the
> paper, and the asterisks what is going to be printed on the page,
> printing like this tends to be avoided by software:
> 
> +--------------------------------+
> |            ******              |
> |            ******              |
> |            ******              |
> |            ******              |
> |            ******              |
> +--------------------------------+
> 
> You have to go out of your way to print in the aspect and orientation
> that you want.

How about when the image being printed has an aspect ratio compatible
with landscape but the resolution is small enough that it fits to
portrait with ease?  Recently when I printed a web comic for my office
door, I had to explicitly choose landscape and stretch/shrink to fit to
get something like this:

+-----------------+
|                 |
|  *************  |
|  *************  |
|  *************  |
|                 |
+-----------------+

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Suvayu

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