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Snapshot prints sideways

asked on March 25, 2021

Has anyone else had trouble with Laserfiche Snapshot printing landscape documents sideways, sometimes? If so, what did you do to fix it?

Our installed version is 10.4.1.102.

If we can't get this resolved, we're going to have to ask users to print with the Microsoft Print to PDF driver, then set up something complicated like QF Agent to convert the PDF into a Laserfiche TIFF file. Thanks!

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replied on March 25, 2021

For one of the users that see if happening, try going to "Laserfiche Snapshot Configuration" and then "View Printing Preferences" and then on the "Device Settings" tab it should have settings like orientation and page size.

The configuration does all of the defaults for that user on that workstation, so if those have been changed, then it because the default for the user unless they change it manually every time - and speaking from experience, few users look at those settings at any point, particularly not when they are in the process of printing something to Snapshot.

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replied on March 25, 2021

Thank you so much for your reply, Matthew. In this case though, it's not in the page settings--it's quirkier than that. It creates a correct landscape image, but creates it sideways, with the top of the document on the left edge of the image. If it were printed on paper, there would be no difference, but on an electronic image, a user would have to go into Laserfiche and manually rotate each page to the right 90 degrees.

I can even see it sideways in the thumbnail preview on the Windows Print dialog box.

Curiously, if I switch the print driver in the dialog box to Microsoft PDF Print, it shows correctly. Then if I switch back to Snapshot, it's still right.

So I can get a correct print, either by doing a little dance with the dialog box or by rotating each page that gets created in Laserfiche, but I can't realistically ask my users to do that.

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replied on March 25, 2021

Update.. I have found settings that result in the right orientation for all pages, but even with correct orientation, all pages after the first are at least partly scrambled by the driver. I think I'm going to have to use a PDF print driver and then set up a separate mechanism to get the documents into Laserfiche. sad

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replied on March 25, 2021

Scrambled after the first page?  That sounds similar to the issue with snapshot some users were reporting with that recent Windows update that broke printers all over the place.  You might want to double-check that.  Unless I'm mistaken Microsoft has a fix since last week, but at least in my case I had to go a step deeper to get it than just the standard search for updates.

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replied on March 25, 2021

Thanks, I'll look into that. I don't have admin rights on the server in question, but I'll put in a ticket to have someone check it out.

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replied on March 26, 2021

The Windows update thing wouldn't be on the Laserfiche server - it would be on the workstation that is being "printed" from.

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replied on March 26, 2021

Here's another question on LFAnswers that talks about the Windows update and the scrambled pages from Snapshot:

https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/184712/Multiple-page-document-Snapshots-incorrectly#185148

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replied on March 26, 2021

Thanks for the reference--I'll pass it on to our networking team. I'll also spend some time looking at it more closely myself.

It's confusing but people in our organization are actually running accounting via RDP to a Windows Server, so they would actually run Snapshot on that server.

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replied on March 26, 2021

Ah, I see.

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