Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

4011.0. "Landscape print prob. on a postscript queue" by BIGTOY::LE (Hong Le, CSC Sydney) Tue Mar 22 1994 06:50

IOS 3.0A

An early STARS article based on THR-15627 mentioned a serious print problem 
where landscape printing of a WPL doc produced the first page of some 48 lines
and subsequent pages of 1 line each, i.e. line 49 on second page, line 50 on 
third page etc. It mentioned a possible fix in 3.0-1 but this didn't seem to 
happen.

This problem occurred to a normal WPL doc which was submitted to a postscript 
queue (CPS or DCPS symbiont) with print style of LN03-R or LPS20, not PS and 
was using PARA=PAGE_ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE in order to force it out in 
landscape. The latter was achieved with keyword defined in printer table 
making say 2 IOS site printer records:

	SNO2_3_1006A LS		for landscape
	SNO2_3_1006A PT 	for portrait

and portrait/landscape jobs will be submitted to approriate queue.
 
The current work-around is to use a LANDSCAPE control block in the doc.
Note that 2.4 didn't need this control block for it to be printed correctly 

Thanks for any comments

Hong

    Hong,
    
    the answer to THr-15627 was only one of those "thank you for your
    QAR answers" that got sent out during DIAMOND Field Test after which
    the prob report was converted to an IPR and drifted off into outer space....
    I don't see anything in either v3.0 patch that discusses this as a fix
    
    Of course since it's a WPS-PLUS question you were in the wrong
    conference anyway.
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
    

    This problem was believed to be the same as CFS.8749, for which IOSG
    has built ICF#33 for IOS 3.0A
    
    Hong