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Re: Landscape printing problem is bug in Poppler not cups-filters



Hi Till,

Le mercredi, 4 décembre 2013, 16.24:45 Till Kamppeter a écrit :
> recently, you have applied a patch to Debian's cups-filters package to
> solve a problem of printing Landscape-oriented pages. The bug report
> and the origin of the patch is
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=768811
> 
> The patch is only a workaround for a bug in Poppler, in the
> implementation of the "-origpagesizes" option of the pdftops utility
> of Poppler. THe patch for cups-filters simply drops the broken
> "-origpagesizes" option, making printing of documents with varying
> page sizes not working any more.

Indeed. Thanks for making that clear.

> I have fixed Poppler now. See
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72312
> 
> and as with this "-origpagesizes" is working correctly now I have
> changed the pdftops call in cups-filters to always use
> "-origpagesizes" when the CUPS job is not sent with "-o fitplot" or
> "-o fit-to-page".
> 
> So please use my patch from the Poppler bug report in Debian's Poppler
> package and use the cups-filters pdftops filter as of BZR rev. 7131
> in Debian.

I think this is http://bugs.debian.org/610014 . I mentionned your patch 
there and marked this bug as affecting cups-filters.

I will drop the workaround from cups-filters as soon as the uploaded 
poppler includes your patch (either upstream or in Debian).

Cheers,
OdyX

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