Problem when printing A3 landscape as A4 portrait

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Hi,

I'm trying to print the following PDF, which contains an A3 landscape page

http://home.in.tum.de/~wengera/Din_A3_Datenblatt.pdf

 in A4 portrait mode. That means, I want it to have 50% scaled and rotated by 90°.

I do:

String customPrinter = qp.NewCustomPrinter(printerName);
qp.SetupCustomPrinter(customPrinter, 1, 9); //1: paper size. 9: DMPAPER_A4
int o = qp.PrintOptions(1, 1, "bla"); //auto-scale, auto-rotate
qp.PrintDocument(customPrinter, 1, qp.PageCount(), o);

It is rotated and scaled correctly, but shifted to the right! See the result:

http://home.in.tum.de/~wengera/Problem.pdf

Is this a bug? Did I miss anything?

Thanks :-)

Andi

Edited by Andi - 16 Jun 11 at 9:43AM

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Andi Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 16 Jun 11 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Andi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Problem when printing A3 landscape as A4 portrait Posted: 16 Jun 11 at 9:40AM
	Hi, I'm trying to print the following PDF, which contains an A3 landscape page http://home.in.tum.de/~wengera/Din_A3_Datenblatt.pdf in A4 portrait mode. That means, I want it to have 50% scaled and rotated by 90°. I do: String customPrinter = qp.NewCustomPrinter(printerName); qp.SetupCustomPrinter(customPrinter, 1, 9); //1: paper size. 9: DMPAPER_A4 int o = qp.PrintOptions(1, 1, "bla"); //auto-scale, auto-rotate qp.PrintDocument(customPrinter, 1, qp.PageCount(), o); It is rotated and scaled correctly, but shifted to the right! See the result: http://home.in.tum.de/~wengera/Problem.pdf Is this a bug? Did I miss anything? Thanks :-) Andi Edited by Andi - 16 Jun 11 at 9:43AM

Andi Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 16 Jun 11 Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote Andi Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Jun 11 at 2:46PM
	I have found a rather simple solution, that works at least for my example PDF. //rotate all rotated pages back to 0 degrees for (int page = 1; page <= qp.PageCount(); page++) { qp.SelectPage(page); if (qp.PageRotation() != 0) qp.RotatePage(0); } Then, when printing with auto-scaling, but no auto-rotation, everything works fine :-) Nevertheless I hope that the bug gets fixed in the next release.

CrazyTIm Members Profile Find Members Posts Team Player Joined: 21 Aug 11 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 29	Post Options Post Reply Quote CrazyTIm Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 22 Aug 11 at 5:25AM
	Brilliant! Solved my problem. For me certain large PDFs didn't scale properly according to the PrintOptions. But now it works OK as I just rotate pages before printing. Cheers, Jason.

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Aug 11 at 2:30AM
	We will try and fix this for the 8.11 release. Pages with no rotation work well but we run into problems when the page rotation flag is set to 90, 180 or 270. The solution to rotate the page to 0 degrees and then back again is the best solution and is quickest and the easiest for the time being. Andrew.