Bug#355757: your mail
reopen 355757
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On 2007-02-27 14:39:30 -0700, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
> This is not a bug. It seems that ps2pdf uses gs and sets the paper size
> appropriate to your locale. If you use "ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 slides.ps" you
> would get your desired paper size as my testing shows. I suppose setting
> LC_PAPER could produce the same result - untested though.
I disagree concerning this behavior. The ps2pdf documentation doesn't
say that the result depends on the locales, and it shouldn't (as for
any conversion program): ps2pdf should keep the same page size as the
one declared in the PS file. Using -sPAPERSIZE=a4 is not a solution
since the page size may be different. Though one could write a wrapper
that would grep the page size declared in the PS file, this behaviour
should be the default. The locales are useful (as a default) only when
the information isn't available.
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