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Bug#159682: marked as done (dvips defaults to a4 paper, screws up psutils)

Your message dated Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:20:18 +0000
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and subject line Bug#49149: fixed in texlive-base 2009-12
has caused the Debian Bug report #49149,
regarding dvips defaults to a4 paper, screws up psutils
to be marked as done.

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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202

dvips uses a default papersize (in /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps) of a4
regardless of the content of /etc/papersize. The default papersize
setting also provides no DSC comment flags in the Postscript output.

My /etc/papersize is letter and ps2pdf seems to provide me
with a proper letter-sized pdf file from dvips output. However,
psutils interpred my originally letter-sized document as
a4. I think this is related to the following excerpt from
/usr/share/doc/psutils-1.17/README:

> DVIPS USERS
>
> The latest versions of dvips have changed the default
> setting of the DSC comment flag; you must generate with
> DSC comments for PSUtils to work.

My problem was resolved by changing /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps

Possibly related to this: psutils bugs #148363 and #46329.

It would be nice if config.ps could be configured automatically
upon install according to /etc/papersize and with the DSC comments
intact.

Comments found on Usenet re: dvips config file at end of this
message.

My system info:

# dvips -v
This is dvips(k) 5.86e Copyright 2001 Radical Eye Software
(www.radicaleye.com)

# uname -a
Linux quimby 2.4.18 #1 Wed Aug 7 22:39:16 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

# dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
Version: 2.2.5-11.1

---------------------------------------------------------------

Comment on Usenet from nililand.siegburg@t-online.de:

(http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=Xns925760FC41C7Dnililandnililandabcd%40nililand.de&rnum=5)

> The default of dvips is stored in config.ps.
>
> From textflow_doc.txt:
>
> "In <texmf>/dvips/config there is a file named config.ps. (Note
> that UNIX users will require root privileges to alter this file.)
> Edit config.ps using a text editor. Toward the latter part of the
> file, there are lines that begin with "@". These control the paper
> size selections. The first set of these lines determines the default
> paper size dvips will use. If this first set of lines does not
> specify the desired default paper size, another set of lines can
> be moved or entered into the first position. For example, putting:
>
> @ letterSize 8.5in 11in
> @+ %%PaperSize: Letter
>
> (with a blank line before and after) as the first set of "@" lines
> will make dvips will default to using US letter paper.
>
> Now, there are two types of dvips paper size commands. The first type
> adds only paper size *comments* to the PostScript output:
>
> @ A4size 210mm 297mm
> @+ %%PaperSize: A4
>
> The @+ line says to place the PostScript comment "%% PaperSize: A4" into
> the output file. Such PostScript DSC (Document Structuring Convention)
> comments are just hints, or suggestions about which type of paper to
> use. In fact many/most PostScript interpreters (Ghostscript, printers)
> will just ignore these and use their own default paper sizes. In a way,
> this is desirable as the comments will not cause any problems if the
> PostScript file is then printed on paper of different size than the
> comments suggest.
>
> A second type of dvips paper size command adds a PostScript command
> which actively sets and enforces a given paper size:
>
> @ a4 210mm 297mm
> @+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: a4
> @+ %%BeginPaperSize: a4
> @+ a4
> @+ %%EndPaperSize
>
> Note the three comments (The "!" just means place the comment at the
> beginning of the PostScript file.) and the "a4" PostScript command.
>
> Therefore, PostScript produced via "dvips -t A4size ..." is different
> from that produced with "dvips -t a4 ...". The former may not always
> be automatically identified as wanting A4 paper, the latter may demand
> A4 - causing some printers to refuse to print on anything other than A4
> paper."
>

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Source: texlive-base
Source-Version: 2009-12

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
texlive-base, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

texlive-base_2009-12.diff.gz
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2009-12.diff.gz
texlive-base_2009-12.dsc
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2009-12.dsc
texlive-base_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-base_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-common_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-common_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-fonts-recommended-doc_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-fonts-recommended_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-fonts-recommended_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-full_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-full_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-generic-recommended_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-generic-recommended_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-latex-base-doc_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-base-doc_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-latex-base_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-base_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-latex-recommended-doc_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-recommended-doc_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-latex-recommended_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-latex-recommended_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-luatex_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-luatex_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-metapost-doc_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-metapost-doc_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-metapost_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-metapost_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-omega_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-omega_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-pictures-doc_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-pictures-doc_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-pictures_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-pictures_2009-12_all.deb
texlive-xetex_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive-xetex_2009-12_all.deb
texlive_2009-12_all.deb
  to main/t/texlive-base/texlive_2009-12_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 49149@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> (supplier of updated texlive-base package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:03:55 +0200
Source: texlive-base
Binary: texlive-base texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-luatex texlive-metapost texlive-omega texlive-xetex texlive texlive-full texlive-common texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-metapost-doc texlive-pictures-doc
Architecture: source all
Version: 2009-12
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>
Description: 
 texlive    - TeX Live: A decent selection of the TeX Live packages
 texlive-base - TeX Live: Essential programs and files
 texlive-common - TeX Live: Base component
 texlive-fonts-recommended - TeX Live: Recommended fonts
 texlive-fonts-recommended-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-recommended
 texlive-full - TeX Live: metapackage pulling in all components of TeX Live
 texlive-generic-recommended - TeX Live: Recommended generic packages
 texlive-latex-base - TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages
 texlive-latex-base-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
 texlive-latex-recommended - TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
 texlive-latex-recommended-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended
 texlive-luatex - TeX Live: LuaTeX packages
 texlive-metapost - TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) drawing packages
 texlive-metapost-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-metapost
 texlive-omega - TeX Live: Omega
 texlive-pictures - TeX Live: Graphics packages and programs
 texlive-pictures-doc - TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pictures
 texlive-xetex - TeX Live: XeTeX packages
Closes: 49149 589205 606039 613690
Changes: 
 texlive-base (2009-12) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Norbert Preining ]
   * texlive-base conflict with texlive-base-bin-doc to get it removed
     (Closes: #589205)
 .
   [ Hilmar Preusse ]
   * texlive-pictures suggests dot2tex (Closes: #613690)
   * tighten BD-Indep of texlive-base to tex-common (>= 2.10) and rebuild
     (Closes: #606039)
 .
   [ Frank Küster ]
   * Install a hook in libpaper.d and let our postinst call it for new
     installations.  This means that the default paper size for dvips,
     pdfTeX, dvipdfmx and XDvi will now be the one given by libpaper, and
     closes: #49149. Yes, the bug number has 5 digits.
   * Manage the following configuration files with ucf to achieve this:
     pdftexconfig.tex, config.ps, dvipdfmx.cfg and XDvi
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