Saturday, 31 January 2009

Linux printing still (sometimes) sucks

It's a while since ESR wrote The Luxury of Ignorance: an Open Source Horror story. Today I wanted to print a PDF of exercise classes at my local sports centre. Here's how it looked on my desktop: I'm using the normally excellent KPDF to view the file: And here's how it looked on paper: Ah. Maybe I need to set it to landscape. Oh. That was landscape. Maybe I should try portrait? Yeah, now I made two bits of scrap paper. Sometimes, Linux printing sucks. I don't have time to search for the options to fix this, I'll just wait until Monday and print from work.

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