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Bug#355757: marked as done (gs-common: pdf2ps modifies (?) page size)

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Package: gs-common
Version: 0.3.9
Severity: important

Hello.

[Please refer to the attached files.]

The first file (pdf) is displayed (with xpdf) correctly as an A4 page.
When converted to ps with pdf2ps (second file), only the bounding box
is displayed (with gv), as if the actual page size has been forgotten
during the conversion.

This has the nasty consequence that my (postscript) printer doesn't
want to print pdf files (claiming that there is no paper...), as
they are passed through the pdf2ps filter.

Is this a bug?  Or am I missing something?

Thanks,
Gilles


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-vs2.1.0-rc5+g3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gs-common depends on:
ii  debconf               1.4.66             Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils           2.15.2             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  defoma                0.11.8-0.1         Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  gs-gpl [gs]           8.15-4.1           The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  gsfonts               8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre

gs-common recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Attachment: HL5150_test.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

Attachment: HL5150_test.pdf.ps
Description: PostScript document


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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.

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