Where is the portrait vs landscape choice?

[sgrandin]

sgrandin last edited by

Btw, I reported this as a bug on Oct 21 -- BS-20978. Would have thought it would have been fixed by now.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 said in Where is the portrait vs landscape choice?:

also think there's an old post on these forums about this. Will see if I can find it.

Couldn't find the thread on it, but found the bug I was thinking of (and previously commented in it and starred it). See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1016235. There's also https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1098468.

I found those by searching for https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=css page size landscape&can=1.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1202672&q=css page size landscape&can=1 is another bug that sounds like the issue. But, that one was marked "wontfix" because the user didn't respond.

[Kramy]

Kramy @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Yep, that did it. Found it in cartDetail-blahblahhex.css - as soon as I removed it, I was able to change the orientation in the print dialog again.

That's just silly that this is even a feature. I see so many ways that this could go wrong. Only makes sense for precisely laying out stuff, which business apps might use - but then they should be using locked down LTS web browsers, not public builds.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @sgrandin last edited by burnout426

@sgrandin This is something that Opera inherits from Chromium. Chromium bugs need to be filed at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list.

In my opinion, it's https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1098468 that represents this issue (even if it's about "portrait" instead of "landscape"). The bug has been stalled, but someone could comment on the bug and point to this forum etc.

[sgrandin]

sgrandin @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Presumably, Opera communicates with Chromium's developers

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer @sgrandin last edited by

@sgrandin Sometimes.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @Kramy last edited by

@kramy So it's probably a Chromium issue, if not a page one.

[burnout426]

burnout426 Volunteer last edited by

As a workaround, you can install User CSS. Then, when on the site that has the problem, click the extension's icon, add:

@media print {
    @page {
        size: auto;
    }
}

for the site and click the extension's icon again to save it.

Then, reload the page if it's still open. From then on, you should be able to print with the orientation you want for the site.

[Kramy]

Kramy @burnout426 last edited by

@burnout426 Very helpful work-around! Thank you.

In my opinion this should still be in the control of the end user. It's their printer and paper - they probably know best.

[sgrandin]

sgrandin last edited by sgrandin

Just did the same thing on a Costco order. No way to change it within the program (without extra code). Then checked FF, Chrome and Edge, and it does the same. Looks like underlying site program needs modification or a workaround created by Opera.