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Bug#364505: marked as done (dvips: the -T options doesn't always act as asked)

Your message dated Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:17:07 -0700
with message-id <E1FvwOJ-0003Cx-SS@spohr.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#364505: fixed in tetex-bin 3.0-17
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-16
Severity: normal

  Hello !

  I work with a publishing house, and they use dvips to produce postscript versions of their books. 
They did find recently that sometimes, providing a paper size with the -T option doesn't produce the 
exact size asked.

  For instance, the option -T17cm,25cm does actually produces something way closer to -T17.6cm,25cm. 
This is coming directly from the following code in texk/dvipsk/output.c (findpapersize, around line 
1000)

         for (ps=papsizes; ps; ps = ps->next) {
            if (indelta(ps->xsize-hpapersize) &&
                indelta(ps->ysize-vpapersize)) {
               landscape = 0 ;
               break ;
            }
         }

  Commenting out the break does solve the problem. Even though I can understand that it is comfortable 
to specify an approximate paper size and having it automatically stick to the closest predefined size 
available, it is way better to use it's name, and not to mess the things for people who really need 
precise paper size, such as publishers. 

  Here is what I propose:

  * unless this feature has some important reasons to be, could it simply be removed ? (it wasn't 
    present, as far as I know, in TeTex 2 series) 
  * in any other case, would it be possible to provide a switch to turn it on or off at will ?

  Thanks for considering this report !

	Vincent Fourmond


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Source: tetex-bin
Source-Version: 3.0-17

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tetex-bin, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libkpathsea-dev_3.0-17_i386.deb
  to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/libkpathsea-dev_3.0-17_i386.deb
libkpathsea4_3.0-17_i386.deb
  to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/libkpathsea4_3.0-17_i386.deb
tetex-bin_3.0-17.diff.gz
  to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-17.diff.gz
tetex-bin_3.0-17.dsc
  to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-17.dsc
tetex-bin_3.0-17_i386.deb
  to pool/main/t/tetex-bin/tetex-bin_3.0-17_i386.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 364505@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated tetex-bin package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:43:18 +0200
Source: tetex-bin
Binary: tetex-bin libkpathsea-dev libkpathsea4
Architecture: source i386
Version: 3.0-17
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description: 
 libkpathsea-dev - path search library for teTeX (devel part)
 libkpathsea4 - path search library for teTeX (runtime part)
 tetex-bin  - The teTeX binary files
Closes: 364505 365979 370505
Changes: 
 tetex-bin (3.0-17) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Do not link statically against the included libgd, instead use the one
     installed in the system.  This fixes some possible security issues,
     hence the urgency [frank]
   * dvips.info, dvips.texi, dvips.1: Apply documentation patch by Vincent
     Fourmond <vincent.fourmond@9online.fr> (approved upstream), many
     thanks (closes: #364505) [frank]
   * Backports: Remove the now obsolete remark about not linking against
     libpoppler from the lines added at the top of the changelog [frank]
   * Change texconfig to use sensible-editor instead of hardcoded vi to
     edit files, and document this in the manual page.  Thanks to Vincent
     Lönngren <bice77@malmo2.net> (closes: #365979) [frank]
   * Document more clearly that british english hyphenation patterns are
     non-free and cannot be enabled.
   * Add support for nonexitant TEXMFVAR to texk/kpathsea/mktexnam
     (approved upstream). First step for a new font caching. [ralf]
   * In xdvi, force input focus for the text input field that appears after
     hitting Ctrl-F (string search). Closes: #370505. [florent]
   * Do not install symlinks into texmfvar [frank]
   * Move all files from TEXMFMAIN to TEXMFDIST, except some scripts that
     would not be found at the new location.  This makes tetex-bin comply
     with current Policy. [frank]
Files: 
 e415921093ed3b87e006443cc77792dd 1042 tex optional tetex-bin_3.0-17.dsc
 9ccb29edc1f7a14fa64da4774e5275aa 147113 tex optional tetex-bin_3.0-17.diff.gz
 9b8ca4bff79dc2213aaf78c8f353f9da 3553162 tex optional tetex-bin_3.0-17_i386.deb
 7c8c504aaca9b2c889d3cd8de919e660 79196 libs optional libkpathsea4_3.0-17_i386.deb
 72a3d7bac791e861eb9a54a54f7a6276 70660 libdevel optional libkpathsea-dev_3.0-17_i386.deb

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