Bug#249466: dvips: Landscape papers handled in an idotic way
On Thu, 20 May 2004, +14:58:32 EEST (UTC +0300),
Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch> pressed some keys:
> 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).
Well, this is not extremely minimal LaTeX-doc, but very minimal, though.
It is my original LaTeX-doc I was trying to run through dvips, with and
without \special, converted in different ways with dvips:
http://people.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/tmp/bugreports/dvips/
quality.txt tells you, which files are right and which files are wrong.
It seems that "-t a4" and "-t landscape" just don't mix well as command
line flags. "-t a4 -t landscape", "-t landscape -t a4" and plain "-a4"
causes those portrait-oriented sheets with cropped text.
HTH
P.S: And sorry for calling you names. TeX and its related software is
generally considered really stable and bulletproof software. Hence, it was
really big surprise to be faced with problems like this.
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