This may be obvious and obnoxious but I've dealt with similar printer 
problems by printing to a pdf then printing the pdf.

The only thing good to say about it is you don't have to look at the ppd's.

Joe

On 06/25/2013 02:06 PM, Mark Stodola wrote:
> On 06/25/2013 01:21 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>> On 06/25/2013 10:40 AM, Mark Stodola wrote:
>>> On 06/25/2013 12:07 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Can you guys tell if this is finger pointing
>>>> or if this really is not a Libre Office problem?
>>>>
>>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> -T
>>>
>>> Having had my fair share of odd behavior with CUPS, I would lean toward
>>> that as the culprit. There are several different filters that get used
>>> depending on the mime type provided. For instance, on SL 5, texttopaps
>>> did very bad things, causing me to force texttops for text/plain
>>> processing. Some of these filters have been known to double-rotate,
>>> which might be what you are experiencing. It might also be worth
>>> skimming through the ppd for the printer to see if the paper 
>>> definitions
>>> or orientation are wrong. If the ppd contains a page orientation, and
>>> the program specifies a rotation, this can also lead to incorrect
>>> orientation.
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> The frustrating thing is that I have no problems printing
>> from anything else. I can print an envelope just fine
>> from Wine/Word Pro, which also uses CUPS. Other programs,
>> portrait or landscape, print just as it is told.
>>
>> Anyway, I opened up the following with Red Hat:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977976
>>
>> Maybe, someday, I will be able to print an envelope
>> through LO.
>>
>> Thank you for your response.
>> -T
>
> If you have the time and patience, you can look into turning up the 
> debug/log level of cups to see what is going on between the programs. 
> You can also intercept the print queue contents by leaving the spool 
> enabled but the printer disabled.  With enough poking, you should be 
> able to pin down where the problem exists.
>
> I am guessing (not sure) that most word processors generate postscript 
> and send it to CUPS.  You can compare the postscript generated in the 
> spool from each of your programs to see how they differ.  It may be 
> worth while to open the postscript in a text editor to see if there is 
> other meta-data that could be affecting the outcome as well.
>
> -Mark
>