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
>

One of the guys on LO's bug reporter gave me a work around:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42327#c23

It does look like this is a CUPS issue.  Lets hope Red Hat
decided the roll out the patch that already works in Fedora.

-T