Bug#461613: texlive-base-bin: xdvi truncates documents on the right

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de>]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 22:55 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: texlive-base-bin
> Version: 2007.dfsg.1-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> xdvi truncates some wide documents on the right, e.g.
> /usr/share/pari/doc/refcard.dvi from the pari-doc package and
> /usr/share/doc/gdb/refcard.dvi.gz from the gdb package.

I have not looked at these particular dvi files, however there a
general problem that by dafult dvi files do not contain any papersize
information. One can give hints to the postprocessing via so called
papersize specials. One cannot blame xdvi, though, if it fails to
guess the right size if such hints are not present. See -paper in
xdvi(1) for ways to tell xdvi the papersize to use.

So I do not think there is a bug as long as the above mentioned dvi
files do not contain papersize specials.

cheerio
ralf