I installed a2ps for printing but the output is landscaped.
I tried using –portrait which 'kinda' worked… but didn't. The orientation was switched 90' but it's only 50% of the width and the text is tiny.
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I installed a2ps for printing but the output is landscaped.
I tried using –portrait which 'kinda' worked… but didn't. The orientation was switched 90' but it's only 50% of the width and the text is tiny.
Best Answer
Short answer
Use
-1
instead of--portrait
.Slightly longer answer
By default
a2ps
tries to put 2 pages on each sheet, this works best side-by-side and landscape, even if you rotate the pagea2ps
still tries to insert 2 pages. The answer is to givea2ps
the-1
switch which instructs it to only have 1 page per sheet (3-9
are also valid number of pages).