Bug#355757: (no subject)
On 2007-03-01 11:41:37 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I'm not sure it is contradictory, but the discussion in bug 365506
> gave a wrong solution. The bug reporter said that the PS file was
> for A4 paper size, but was converted to Letter paper size (but this
> is strange since ps2pdf seems to run fine here). What I suggest
> would be consistent with what is required in this bug: keep the
> original paper size. For instance, what if the user had an A3 or
> US-Legal (i.e. larger than A4) PS file and wanted to convert it to
> PDF? Using /etc/papersize here would clearly be a bad choice.
Well, when I'm saying that ps2pdf seems to run fine, in fact this
depends on the file. When /etc/papersize is empty (to provide no
defaults -- i.e. letter is the default), ps2pdf converts some A4
files into A4 (that's OK), but some other ones (landscape ones?)
into letter, though both contain:
%%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
But perhaps there is some detection based on the bounding box which
doesn't work reliably. The landscape file has:
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
while the portrait file has:
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842
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