PDF's Printing in Landscape

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PDF's Printing in Landscape

Hi,

Problem I've encountered since updating to El Capitan, not sure if it's an El Capitan issue or a general OS X issue. I regularly print off address labels, 4 labels per sheet of A4 using Avery labels. In the Print Preview they show in portrait as they always have done but when I print it attempts to print in landscape across the middle of the label sheet. No matter what changes I make before printing to the orientation, etc. it always seems to try and print off in landscape instead of portrait.

The labels I use are generated as a PDF and normally I print direct from Safari as that's where they're generated. Also tried saving them and opening them in Preview, but still they print off landscape across the middle of a portrait sheet of A4 or labels. Tried printing a couple of other things and they print portrait fine, just seems to be PDF's for some reason.

Any idea what may be causing it or how to fix it?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), 2.6GHz, 8GB Ram, 512GB, 1GB NVIDIA

Posted on Oct 1, 2015 7:29 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 1, 2015 12:00 PM in response to TJ Skywasher

I don't have a solution, except to suggest that you submit feedback to Apple so that you are sure they know about it:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Would it be possible to send me a sample of the saved pdf that shows the problem, please? jblancha@mac.com

Thank you.

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Answer 2

PAHU

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Oct 2, 2015 1:59 AM in response to TJ Skywasher

Have you tried disabling the Auto Rotate setting, located above the Scale radio button?

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Answer 3

TJ Skywasher Author

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Oct 2, 2015 8:53 AM in response to PAHU

Yep, I've tried everything I can find from the Print menu. Changing the orientation, the layout, everything and it still prints funny.

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Answer 4

Oct 2, 2015 3:34 PM in response to TJ Skywasher

I have the same issue, preview layout shows as it should. Tried everything. El Capitan issue.

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Answer 5

Oct 2, 2015 4:54 PM in response to grassyknoll

Try drag and drop to the printer. That works, verified in another thread.

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Answer 6

Gilles

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Oct 3, 2015 1:49 AM in response to John Blanchard1

Weird. But thanks. It's a bug I guess...

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Timmonsm

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Oct 3, 2015 10:20 AM in response to Gilles

Also, in Preview do a rotate.. then it will print properly..

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rdealba

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Oct 8, 2015 6:23 PM in response to TJ Skywasher

I have the same problem Using EPSON M205 Series, do you think is a bug that we can fix by any terminal commands ??

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Answer 9

Oct 9, 2015 8:05 AM in response to rdealba

No, the workarounds currently are to use drag and drop or to print from Acrobat, although there are mixed reports on Acrobat.

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Answer 10

Oct 12, 2015 7:23 AM in response to TJ Skywasher

I have had this issue with multiple macs and multiple printers. Dragging the PDF to the printer works and so does rotating in preview. Hoping Apple fixes this quickly as I frequently print segments of long PDFs and this work around is a nuisance. But...at least it works!

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MirkoB82

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Oct 15, 2015 7:38 AM in response to TJ Skywasher

same problem for me. I have a password-locked PDF and i cannot print it in the right way because of the same identical misprints. no way i can solve this. really hope for a bugfix from apple soon.

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dreadmd

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Oct 22, 2015 9:07 PM in response to TJ Skywasher

yeah. Ive had this problem since upgrading to El Capitan as well. At first I thought that the problem was with the file as the sender saved it. I took a screen shot of the file and that printed normally, but when I have multiple pages that is tedious. I've tried rotating the pages that I want to print; for example one might have a 10 page document but only need to print pages 3 - 5. Just open up thumbnails and rotate the pages that you want to print and then select print range in print box. You can also select "Open PDF Preview" at bottom left of the print box, after rotating pages to verify that the print orientation will be correct. Doesn't matter if the pages are upside down or not, what does matter is that they are not oriented 90 degrees to the page. This is clearly a problem with the Preview -El Capitan code interaction. At least now I know I'm not imagining things.

dreadmd

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Answer 13

Oct 23, 2015 9:00 AM in response to dreadmd

Other threads have reported that this is fixed with 10.11.1.

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Merlin37

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Dec 5, 2015 1:21 AM in response to TJ Skywasher

I have the same problem. I am changing a lot between a DIN A 5 and DIN A 4 setup and the first print out is always in the wrong orientation. The second is fine and everything afterwards too.

The thing is I have always have to print out one DIN A 5 and then a 4, so I always have one page and one label for the trash which is a waste of everything.

I am running on 10.11.1 and it doesn't matter if I use Preview or Acrobat or whatever. The problem stays.

Any solutions by now?

Thanks

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Answer 15

Ecdierks

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Dec 8, 2015 4:35 PM in response to rdealba

I'm having the same issue using a 2011Late MacBook Pro and EPSON XP-410 Series on El Capitan.

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