Bug#289848: tetex-bin: pdflatex generates truncated seminar slides
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> schrieb:
> On 2005-01-12 10:55:47 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Well, it would be nice if that was sufficient, but it isn't; you need
>> hyperref.sty or geometry.sty.
>
> I can see that as a workaround only. But the current behavior is
> not intuitive, not user-friendly, and direct reuse of existing
> LaTeX files (that were working with latex + dvips) is limited.
On my system, I get truncated pdf and ps files even with dvips and
ps2pdf, I cannot reproduce the success you have. So perhaps there is
some local configuration in /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps?
>> Therefore it is clear that this is not a bug, but a missing feature,
>> and it is missing in LaTeX, not pdftex. If you insist, we can
>> retitle and reassign this to tetex-base, and report it to the LaTeX
>> project bug database. But I am sure that this will not change
>> anything: In a to-be LaTeX 3.0, there will most probably easy access
>> to pdf specials, anyway, even without our bug report. An for bugfix
>> releases of LaTeX2e, such a change will not be made.
>
> I think that it is important that pdflatex does not truncate the
> slides. The bug could be reassigned to tetex-base if you think a
> missing feature is there. However, this could also be fixed in
> seminar.cls (from the tetex-extra package), using similar code
> to hyperref.sty or geometry.sty.
This could be a nice feature, yes. However, if I were the maintainer of
seminar, I would not like to take code out of hyperref or geometry. This
would duplicate maintainance efforts, I would have to follow bug reports
for hyperref and apply the fixes (or feature enhancements) to seminar,
too. I'd rather recommend to use hyperref. Well, there's things in
between, like always loading hyperref (which not everybody will want) or
loading hyperref when the user option "papersize" is given or something
similar.
Would you be willing to make this suggestion to the seminar developer?
I'm not even sure if he is actively developing the package, the file
sem-read.me says:
,----
| ... A new version of
| "seminar" is in preparation by Timothy van Zandt.
|
| June 3rd 1999
| Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>
| Denis Girou <denis.girou@idris.fr>
`----
It is usually a better idea if the person who contacts the upstream
authors actually knows something about the package. If you feel better,
you can tell him that you are contacting him on behalf of the Debian
teTeX maintainers.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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