Hi All, For a number of years now, I have encountered significant problems with printing directly from Scribus. The workaround has always been to create a PDF and print from that.
However I thought I should report these in case there is something simple that I am doing wrong, or in case it indicates the existence of a "coding opportunity" for someone :o) I support scribus installed on a number of machines running a variety of versions of Fedora Core, and a variety of versions of Scribus. These problems were certainly there in 1.2.4, and are still there in 1.3.3.8, 1.3.3.11 and at least one other flavour of 1.3.3. 1. I simply cannot print a landscape document in landscape orientation. The only way I have been able to print landscape documents has been to create a PDF and print from that. I am *fairly* sure that landscape printing worked in versions earlier than 1.2.4. Currently whenever I try, I get a landscape-oriented document printed on portrait-oriented paper. 2. Larger documents (10+ pages with a total of 20 images) tickles a problem in the postscript processor on linux, causing it to consume all RAM, and then make the machine page-fault itself into oblivion. Since this problem is such a pain when it happens, I haven't tried printing a large document from Scribus for quite some time, but the last time I tried on both 1.2.4 and 1.3.3.something, it failed. As I indicated, this seems not to be a fault with Scribus per se, but something in the printing filters on linux. However, the problem seems to be caused by the way scribus is performing the printing, since a PDF made from that scribus document *can* be printed. Has anyone else encountered similar problems, and does anyone have any advice on how to fix this? If anyone would like more information or sample files, I am happy to provide them. Cheers! Nik
