Bug#289848: tetex-bin: pdflatex generates truncated seminar slides
On 2005-01-11 14:30:02 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Then you have given dvips the correct papersize options, or have
> configured them generally.
No, I just did a "dvips slidetest.dvi -o" and my .dvipsrc doesn't
contain anything about the papersize. If the papersize is determined
at this time, then perhaps the Debian package has some default
option. The PS file says:
%%PaperSize: A4
This is either hardcoded (but this would be surprising) or dvips
looks at /etc/papersize (which contains a4 here).
> In your example, there is no way for pdftex to know which physical
> pages sizes you want. Of course it knows of the area it can use for
> typesetting, but this is a different thing. If you use
> \usepackage{hyperref} (and IIRC geometry.sty as well), it will read
> the a4paper specification from the global options and put a
> PDF-special indicating the papersize into the PDF file.
I don't understand. pdfinfo says:
Creator: TeX
Producer: pdfTeX-1.10b
CreationDate: Tue Jan 11 11:07:00 2005
Tagged: no
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
File size: 8341 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.4
So, pdflatex could get the page size. But it didn't put the page in
landscape orientation (dvips did that automatically, I didn't need
to provide the "-t landscape" option).
> So essentially this is not a bug in pdftex, rather it is a
> limitation in how LaTeX typesetting works, and can quite easily be
> fixed by adding additional \usepackage commands.
Note that in my .tex file, I used the a4 option. This should be
sufficient.
> If you think that we can close this bug, please send your answer to
> 289848-done@bugs.debian.org.
I don't think we can close it yet due to my comments above.
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