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

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi>]

On Wed, 19 May 2004, +22:31:20 EEST (UTC +0300),
Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> pressed some keys:

>     that mean that hyperref has the same errors in the postscript code?
> 
> Frank, your example document did not use hyperref, only something called
> "typearea".  I don't understand?
> 
> In any case, this seems to be a mismatch between the specials that some
> packages generate and what dvips understands.  Do you see any pattern?
> Are there other packages involved?  Do you know what the actual special
> in the DVI file is?
> 
> At this point, I'm not exactly sure what the problem really is that's
> being reported, sorry to say!

I propose you'll create two minimal LaTeX-docs: one doc with papersize
specials (mentioned in info-formatted docs of dvips) and without them:

\special{papersize=WIDTH,HEIGHT}

\special{landscape}

Then convert them with dvips with different combinations of -t -flags
and see what happens.


-- 
Juhapekka "naula" Tolvanen * http colon slash slash iki dot fi slash juhtolv
"kohtalona perinnön on kirjastona roihuta kun lukutaidottomat säikkyy
ensipakkasta ja tuki kanssaihmisten on hyöty täysin ilmainen. vaan mitenpä
käy lempeyslainan palautuksessa?"                                        CMX