Printing backward

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 05:13:19PM -0000, Fred Bone wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2007 at 20:37, Mike said:
> 
> > On Mon, November 19, 2007 8:12 pm, Richard Mancusi wrote:
> > > On Nov 19, 2007 6:18 PM, Ken G. <ken.g at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi:  I reinstalled PDFCreator and was able to save the pdf file.  I am
> > >> attaching it.  Not only it is backward but upside-down!
> > >>
> > >
> > > It sure looks like a non-GnuCash printing problem.  I didn't have any
> > > problem printing the same report from my system using the CUPS PDF
> > > printer. But indeed, your PDF looks and prints as you stated. A couple
> > > of questions:
> > >
> > >
> > > 1. Can you create PDFs from other applications?
> > 
> > FWIW, I am running GnuCash 2.2.1 on XP/SP2, and all my reports print
> > backwards and upside-down... I *must* use Report > Export to .html
> 
> I am also running 2.2.1 on XPPro-SP2. If I print straight to the printer, 
> I get the individual characters inverted. This is *not* "backwards and 
> upside-down"; it is, however, the way the text shows up in the PDF 
> attached by the OP.

Now this is interesting.  There are times I *want* to print something 
backwards or upside-down, mostly when I'm doing obscure mathematics).  
Now that I know it's possible, I'd like to know how one can manipulate 
Postscript to do this!

-- hendrik