Change paper orientation in DOS prints
When printing in GDI mode, normally Printfil automatically rotates in landscape print jobs which are wider than a certain number of columns (characters in the longer row) to ensure the job is always readable, independently by which paper size is defined in the Windows printer driver (for example, a print job designed to be printed on a 136 columns dot-matrix printer can be automatically printed landscape on an A4 or Legal sheet).
Please search for the "AutoLand" word in the manual, Chapter 3: https://www.printfil.com/manualen/c3.htm - That parameter can be visually setup in the Standard Configuration dialog and/or in the optional CFG file.
In this video, we see how to choose the preferred orientation for each print job, with or without user intervention.
With user intervention:
Enable "Choose" (printer) and AutoLand=0
Print from DOS to LPT1:
Select landscape orientation in the printer properties
Without user intervention:
Untick "Choose" and AutoLand=1
Print from DOS again
Landscape: Any print is wider than 1 char
Setup AutoLand=999
Print from DOS again
Portrait: Narrower than 999 chars
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