Description: Different variants of this bug appear to go back to 2015 or so. When you have a letter-sized document, LibreOffice *insists* on printing it in landscape orientation, and there's no apparent way to alter it. However, I can't find any info on it in current versions. (I did find a lot of old, snarky threads. This issue has been marked closed several times.) Yes, some workarounds work. I can set the document width to be 8.49", and it behaves correctly. I can output to PDF and print the PDF, and that works. However I'm trying to teach my techphobic mother-in-law to use this program, and these workarounds really are a bridge too far. I hope that someone is able to fix this bug soon. It appears to have been in LibreOffice for nearly a decade. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Make a letter-sized portrait document on a Mac. 2.Try to print it. 3. Actual Results: It forces you to print in landscape, with a giant margin on the right, and cutting it off on the bottom. Expected Results: Printing should match the orientation of the document. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: We upgraded from LO 7.2.2 to 7.5.2, in an effort to fix this. There was no difference.
Please test with a clean profile, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode
(In reply to m.a.riosv from comment #1) > Please test with a clean profile, Menu/Help/Restart in Safe Mode Done. Makes not a bit of difference. It forces a print in landscape mode, with no apparent way to change this.
[Automated Action] NeedInfo-To-Unconfirmed
@Adam : could you let us know the locale, keyboard and language settings for: - the OS; - LibreOffice; - the printer name/model, and driver version, (and any default page setting within the printer configuration) Could you also let us know what the default page style is when you open a new Writer document (does it open as Letter, or is it A4) ? I have seen other similar reports in the past, but as I'm an A4 European (fr-FR) user, I would probably have to change my whole work environment to try and reproduce this issue.
Previously reported here, so confirming: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-do-i-stop-it-from-printing-in-landscape-mode-instead-of-portrait-mode/20765/37 This is an old bug indeed.
Looks like bug 92190 has come back.
Regression, because it was seemingly solved for a while.
(In reply to Alex Thurgood from comment #4) > @Adam : could you let us know the locale, keyboard and language settings for: > > - the OS; > - LibreOffice; > - the printer name/model, and driver version, (and any default page setting > within the printer configuration) > > Could you also let us know what the default page style is when you open a > new Writer document (does it open as Letter, or is it A4) ? > > I have seen other similar reports in the past, but as I'm an A4 European > (fr-FR) user, I would probably have to change my whole work environment to > try and reproduce this issue. It's hard to get all that info immediately--this was at a relative's house, and I was there for the Easter holiday. I'll try to get it soon. But I can confirm that this was in the US--so used standard American settings including American English, and with a default paper size of letter (8½"×11") and not A4.
changing earliest version affected according to OP.