Landscape printing form master-pdf-editor

[erfan]

As pdf viewer I am using for years master-pdf-editor, mainly because it is the only which has a real-time preview on the printing dialog of what would be printed and because it is capable to reuse a page multiple times for print. For example, if I want to print page 1 on a single A4 two times, I would choose pages 1,1 and multiple / 2 pages per page, it shows me that and I can print what I see.

But printing in landscape on Rosa 13 from master-pdf-editor on my printer always shrinks the page (I do not know why and to what scale, and do not tested on other real printer). As a workaround I could turn the page to portrait, but if I put two portrait pages on a landscape page I have to click multiple times. It takes a lot more time, more settings to change from the basic ones. I don't know what is the problem, because the same version of master-pdf-editor on another laptop and linux OS with the same printer works OK, but it is the only app behaving like this.

Then I tried to print from master-pdf-editor to pdf with cups-printer. The result was OK. This led me to the ideea that the printer driver has a problem. Is is a HP LaserJet Pro 400 M401 dn printer, which before had no problems. I tried several HP drivers from the CUPS list. Finally, after hours of trial and error, I ended up with HP LaserJet 5 Foomatic/pxlmono driver, like the only one which prints OK on landscape and double-sided too.

But, I always used before the matching model's driver HP LaserJet 400 M401 dn, and had no problems. Also, with this Foomatic driver, are missing some settings, for example the type of paper, which sets up the time of burning the toner on the paper (for example on heavier papers, more than the basic 80g/mp). The Foomatic driver is a workaround only for basic, everyday tasks.

This only happens printing from master-pdf-editor, but this app is the main which I use for printing from. Where should be the problem?

As a side-mark, the hplip-gui-3.25.2 from repository has its interface mixed in russian and english, but maily in russian. I didn't find a way to convert it to english in any way. The previous version, 3.24.4 was all in english. Maybe an update can correct this.

[erfan]

Also linked to master-pdf-editor's problems, the printing dialog window do not come up immediately, like normally should, and like in other apps, but I have to wait around 2 seconds.

Any idea why?

[erfan]

A few weeks ago came an update to cups from 2.4.12 version to 2.4.14. I installed it. But a few days ago I had to print on landscape from masterpdfeditor with the above described HP LaserJet printer.

The page came out positioned perpendicularly to the A4 page, printed landscape on a portrait paper.

I was in a hurry then, so I thought that slowly I will go crazy with all these continuous problems here and there. This time I turned the page in masterpdfeditor to be in portrait, but I needed a permanent solution.

I tried to reinstall with its normal driver, but it was the same.

Finally I had to reinstall (downgrade to) the previous 2.4.12 version. With it the printing works correctly on my HP LaserJet 5 Foomatic/pxlmono driver. I don't know which has to be blamed for the problem, but I blocked all four cups related files which were updated from future updates - cups, cups-common, lib64cups2, lib64cupsimage2.

[irton]

wow HP LaserJet 5 is oldest printer, cups developer may be forgot this name

[erfan]

Maybe that is why this driver still works, and I am glad that it does with my HP LaserJet 400 M401 dn printer. Because the default driver for this printer is printing downscaled on landscape. I dont know why. The printer works perfectly with older linuxes.

This old driver handles perfectly my printer for a plain paper general use printing. I cannot change to print on a heavier paper - to print slower for burning on the toner better - but fortunately I don't need this.