[reportlab-users] Bug in SimpleDocTemplate?

[Michael Hipp]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> With GhostScript, I guess you would use the printer's own dialog to

> change the printer to landscape mode.


That precludes the possibility of programmatic printing (no operator 
intervention). If I want the user to have to go clickety-click, I may as well 
use Adobe.


>> Surely Reportlab should be able to produce output where the document and paper 

>> match.

> 

> It's not up to ReportLab.  ReportLab doesn't have a CLUE about the

> printer that will eventually be used, nor what kind of paper is in it,

> nor what orientation it might be expecting.  Acrobat knows some of that,

> but the rest is embedded in the printer driver.  ReportLab produces PDF

> output in a particular orientation.  That's all it can do.  Acrobat is

> responsible to send that output to a printer.  The printer is configured

> by the driver to print in either portrait or landscape.  That setting is

> part of the printer's property pages.


Then how do documents like this one...

   http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vimqrc.pdf

have a "document" and "paper" that match orientation?

Thanks,
Michael