> configuration it may give a clue to your problem. ![]() > should not have to use a cloud utility to print. > already suggested ie print to a PDF then print the PDF. > By sending it as PDF you are doing in a very round about manner what was PS - A workaround in any Linux shouldn’t be a final solution. Discovering that PDF worked when HTML didn’t (in Cloud Print) was the final step to this workaround. (Yes, I know Chromebook is a version of Linux, but doesn’t seem to have that bug.) Finding that I can send to my HP 7510 printer using the wireless e-mail address got around my openSUSE. So, changing my printer method from USB to wireless allows the Chromebook to print directly without having to go through the bug in Linux. (Well, you can, but you still have to print with Cloud Print.) Yes, I could always download or save anything in the browser to print locally - on my desktop, but you can’t do that in Chromebook. ![]() Printing from a Chromebook, yes I do have to print with Google Cloud Print. Look at the printer configuration it may give a clue to your problem. You really should not have to use a cloud utility to print. PS - I’m considering this closed - but not solved - until someone figures out a better solution.īy sending it as PDF you are doing in a very round about manner what was already suggested ie print to a PDF then print the PDF. It would be nice if someone figures out why and fixes it, but this workaround seems to work fine. That makes sense because the Chromebook and desktop is no longer using my desktop as a server, but both are going directly to the printer by IP address. It printed just fine from my local, Linux (openSUSE 13.1) desktop and from the Chromebook. Sending as an HTML file did NOT work, but sending as a PDF did work. Then in Drive documents I don’t actually print, but I “Email as Attachment…”. With HP that meant setting up a local printer to print by sending to my HP ePrint e-mail. I changed my local printer from a local printer to a Google Cloud Print printer. I have found a workaround that may explain something to someone, but I still don’t know why… Alas, that doesn’t help printing from the Chromebook. Yeah, downloading and printing locally seems to be the workaround. If enough people acknowledge the problem I report to Bugzilla / Try to figure out. I’m not even sure what where the problem is. There is some work around in Libre Office, Gimp etc. I’m sorry to reply, -this is a long going problem despite printer. I only add stuff with YaST and accept every update that it wants to do. The people I’ve been working with at Google support seem to have lost interest in helping as soon as I found out that it worked the same in Firefox. Somehow, Sheet files are sending a message to the oS printing system that tells to print correctly while anything else doesn’t get that landscape flag triggered. ![]() Logically, it seems like it’s a communication problem between the browsers and oS’s printing system. Printing anything landscape from Chrome or Firefox will force it into portrait, except for Google Drive Sheet files where the extra option will tell something to do it right. So, printing locally prints landscape just as it’s suppose to. Libreoffice, Okular, GIMP, everything prints just exactly in the orientation I tell it. The weird thing is that if I print any local file from a Linux app to the local printer in landscape. ![]() So, it’s telling me that it’s not specific to Drive files or Chrome. I then tried Firefox and found it worked exactly the same - it won’t print anything in landscape, even if it is landscape. To let you know this all used to work just fine with oS 12.3 and 13.1 for a very long time. The way we have it setup is through Google Cloud Print to my local HP 7510. BTW, my wife’s Chromebook uses the shared printer on this desktop too and also won’t print landscape when it’s suppose to. So, it started to look like a Chrome browser problem. This is true using Chrome’s dialog or using the alternate Shift+Ctrl+P and passing to my oS 13.1 print dialog. Then I noticed that I can print anything from Chrome in landscape. I remember that they all used to have that option, but now only Sheet files have that for printing and they print landscape just fine. That is except for Sheet files they print fine because the Print dialog box has extra options to select Landscape or Portrait. Docs created in landscape would only print portrait with the right cut off. I first thought it was related to the Google Drive documents we were printing. It seems that sometime in the past couple of months we could no longer print landscape documents from Chrome. I have a strange one that I’ve been working with Google on.
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