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poppler package

  1. Bug #1243484
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 1243484

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In , Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Created attachment 90229
A4-A3-A4-3-pdftopdf.pdf

This file (example for a book with a fold-out page) is created with LibreOffice and run through pdftopdf. It contains 3 pages:

1. A4 portrait, no rotation
2. A3 landscape, 90 degree rotation
3. A4 portrait, no rotation

So page size, orientation, and rotation vary.

Printing with the workaround of dropping "-origpagesizes" fails:

pdftops A4-A3-A4-3-pdftopdf.pdf

makes the second page being cropped to A4 portrait.

pdftops -paper A4 A4-A3-A4-3-pdftopdf.pdf

makes the second page being squeezed into A4 portrait.

In both cases the second page is correctly rotated.

So "-origpagesizes" is needed and without my patch

pdftops -origpagesizes A4-A3-A4-3-pdftopdf.pdf

leaves the second page unrotated and so on a printer which loads A3 paper short-edge-first the second page is not correctly printed. With my patch it gets rotated. The leaving out of the "%%DocumentMedia: ..." line in the PostScript output also assures that all PostScript viewers can cope with the changing page sizes.