psnup mis-places landscape pages, truncating content. -l option does nothing.

[jimav]

psnup mis-positions pages which were created in landscape format, causing content to be truncated. The pages get put side-by-side, hanging over the right and left edges of the output sheet (so the parts outside the edge are lost) I was expecting the pages to be put one above the other (my words refer to viewing the output sheet in an upright portrait position).

The -l option has no effect at all! The output is exactly the same with or without the -l option.

Here's what the result looks like (A and B are input page data) [view this with fixed-width font!]

  ----------------
AA|AAAAAA BBBBBB|BB
AA|AAAAAA BBBBBB|BB
AA|AAAAAA BBBBBB|BB
  | |
  | |
  | |
  | |
  ----------------

Here is what I was expecting:

  ----------------
  | AAAAAAAA |
  | AAAAAAAA |
  | AAAAAAAA |
  | |
  | BBBBBBBB |
  | BBBBBBBB |
  | BBBBBBBB |
  ----------------

I will attach test data. The landscape pages were created with libre office writer (.odt file will be included).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: psutils 1.17-29
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Feb 7 13:58:41 2012
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: psutils
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[jimav (james-avera)]

Here's the test script (attached previously)

#!/bin/sh

set -x

# $ lowriter lspages.odt
# File->ExporAsPdf to create lspages.pdf

pdf2ps lspages.pdf lspages.ps
psnup -2 lspages.ps > WithoutDashl.ps
psnup -l -2 lspages.ps > WithDashl.ps
diff WithoutDashl.ps WithDashl.ps && echo THEY ARE IDENTICAL

[James Fellows (mrfellows)]

This issue still occurs in Ubuntu 14.04 (psutils package version 1.17.dfsg-1)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.