Bug#379378: source package for poster version 20050907 with patches for Debian
Hi Peter,
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:55:21PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> I notice that http://printing.kde.org/downloads/ has version 20060221,
> and your patch 20050907toDebian.diff applies with just an offset:
>
> ...
>
> The poster ChnageLog says:
>
> 2006-02-19 Manfred Paulus <manfred.paulus@googlemail.com>
> ...
> * output: make postscript functions out of read in
> page descriptions instead of copying the code
> for every output page
> ...
>
> Is there a reason that you didn't use the 2006 version but rather the
> 2005 version?
>
Yes. It didn't give printable output, at least for my tests
(LaTeX/dvips poster + file from Bug #255718). It's mainly the
above change that caused problems. I'm not a postscript expert,
but the whole poster (typically single-page) is defined in one macro
"/print_content_of_complete_page_XX". Then the macro is used multiple
times, for each new page. That makes the resulting postscript document
much smaller, but it seems to break other things. Maybe there is
some size limitation in postscript for macros?
Nevertheless, that was the reason I preferred the 2005 version over
the 2006 version, because it seems to be the more stable one, although
it produces larger documents.
cheers,
Daniel
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