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

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Dear Juhapekka,

Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@cc.jyu.fi> wrote:

> 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.

It seems that you have investigated this and currently know more about
the problems than we do. I have tried it, and I get the error message,
but in this case dvips behaves (nearly) as it should: It produces a
landscape paper, only upside-down.

Juhapekka, since you are the one who best knows what's going on, and
since you are the one who started calling people names, I would suggest
that _you_ produce a comprehensive description of the problem, with
example documents, and elaborate on your analysis, as far as you have
one yet (it seems so). This would help us all (and all dvips users).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie