Bug#249466: dvips: Landscape papers handled in an idotic way

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 17.05.04 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:

Hi *,

> Only if you remove the comment before the hyperref package, then
> you get the error message:
> 
> $ dvips -t a4 -t landscape landscape.dvi 
> This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
> ' TeX output 2004.05.17:1904' -> landscape.ps
> dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape
> <texc.pro><f7b6d320.enc><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmr12.pfb>[1] [2] 
> 
And in this case you can even leave out that -t a4.
drachi:~# dvips -tlandscape hyper.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.92b Copyright 2002 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com)
' TeX output 2004.05.19:1307' -> hyper.ps
dvips: both landscape and papersize specified:  ignoring landscape
<texc.pro><f7b6d320.enc><texps.pro><special.pro>. <cmr12.pfb>[1] [2] [3]

> It seems the page size information that hyperref writes into the
> dvi file is not appropriate for dvips. It might be a bug in
> hyperref, because also dvipdfm does not recognize the paper format
> correctly.
> 
Both, hyperref and a0poster^1 cause dvips to read special.pro. I guess
there is a papersize defined, which can't be overridden by -t landscape.

H. 

^1 http://bugs.debian.org/118563
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