Rotate Print Page from vertical half-letter to horizontal half-letter

[ramontochip]

My Page is Portrait (8.5in(V) x 5.5in(H)). The document report to be printed must be in this format. To print several pages, we use continuous paper with tear-offs at every half-letter size ie (size of paper is 5.5inches(V) x 8.5inches(H)).

Our question is how do we send a print job that will rotate the document 90degree (either to the left or to the right). We are using libreoffice writer and our printer is a dot-matrix epson LX300 or LX310. Is there a printer driver we can use or a libreoffice macro we can use to do such a job?

In microsoft access report, we were able to use a macro provided in a forum to do such job.

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[ajlittoz]

Under Linux (you didn’t mention your OS), the CUPS printing infrastructure allows such a procedure. I don’t know if it is really a CUPS feature or a LO one.

Define your document page size as it is, i.e. half-Letter portrait.

In the print dialog, set the printer sheet size as Letter landscape. In the Page Layout tab, request 2 pages per sheet. The preview allows you to check you have the correct layout.

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[ramontochip]

Thank you for your reply. We tried it and seems to probably rotate the print out. However, it feeds(goes) to the second half-letter before printing on it. The first half-letter paper is blank. We will do more testing.

[ajlittoz]

You may have an initial page break (though it should not matter) or your page style requires some “parity alignment” like Left Page for the first page.

[ramontochip]

After experimenting, it looks like we need to set the order “right to left” so that the page 1 is printed first. Otherwise, if we set the order “left to right”, then page 2 is printed first (if only one page then first page is blank).

Thanks again.

[ajlittoz]

Good.

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