On 2019-03-19 08:32:00 phiebie@... wrote:
> Trinity 14.0.6 preliminary.
> Don't know if it is a feature of ksnapshot or a misconfiguration
> somewhere from me, but it is getting absolutely annoying what happens.
> I have a website, a document or whatsoever on my screen in full
> A4-papersize. Now I want a printout of a small part of it. Call
> ksnapshot, choose "region" "new snapshot" and then draw a border around
> the desired part. Press "print" and then print it. Bull... I get a
> print in landscape, useless and even worse not even the original layout
> reappears.
> Stop ksnapshot, restart it and same procedure with again the same
> miserable result.
> Stop, restart, same procedure but no actual printing, instead I look
> into the printer properties. And there, big surprise, landscape was
> marked as to be printed BUT all 4 orientations were grayed out, so I
> couldn't change that.
> Checked in tdeprint the printersettings, nothing wrong, in "instances"
> "settings" all 4 orientations were available and portrait was marked as
> to be applied in the default printer.
> Checked kprinter and of course the settings of tdeprint were there also
> valid.
> But then I had an idea. If I selected in ksnapshot a larger part of the
> screen, say more than half A4, what would happen?
> Yes, some ugly words from me and there it was: portrait was marked but
> still all 4 possibilities grayed out.
> So ksnapshot decides how it wants to print and doesn't leave the user a
> chance to get a result, that he wants. Utterly bull....
> Any suggestion, where I could look to alter this behaviour?
> Phiebie.
>
	That's nasty.  I wasn't aware that I could print directly from KSnapshot;
I've always saved those images to disk and printed them from something else.

Leslie