Package: texlive-extra-utils
Version: 2011.20120322-1
Severity: normal
Hello,
I tried to use pdfjoin which is part of TeX to join PDF document pages.
It turns out that when the first page of the document is slightly larger
than the rest of the pages this prevents pdfjam from producing usable
output. The first page has correct orientation but the following pages
are rotated.
It seems that the undocumented parameter --rotate-oversized (set to
true) might be the culprit. However
1) the parameter is not documented
2) the pages are not oversized, they are undersized
3) rotating the pages is in no way useful since they are actually the
same format (landscape). It would be only useful if rotating the page
would yield larger page size after fitting it to the output paper size.
Attaching sample (empty) pages.
$ pdfjoin --frame true page1.pdf page2.pdf
----
pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 2.08.
pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults...
(none found)
pdfjam: Effective call for this run of pdfjam:
/usr/bin/pdfjam --fitpaper 'true' --rotateoversize 'true' --suffix joined --frame 'true' -- page1.pdf - page2.pdf -
pdfjam: Calling pdflatex...
pdfjam: Finished. Output was to '/scratch/tmp/page2-joined.pdf'.
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List of ls-R files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587 Apr 18 20:05 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 14 01:43 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 79 Dec 9 2010 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN
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Config files
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Apr 18 20:05 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4746 Apr 18 20:05 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3245 Apr 18 20:05 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
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Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Nov 10 2008 mktex.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Apr 18 20:05 texmf.cnf
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md5sums of texmf.d
ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf
1df66bc319cec731e202eaf39f5d85e1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils depends on:
ii dpkg 1.16.2
ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6
ii python 2.7.2-10
ii tex-common 3.8
ii texlive-base 2011.20120410-1
ii texlive-binaries 2011.20120410-1
ii texlive-common 2011.20120410-1
Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils recommends:
ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-4
ii ruby 4.8
ii ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter] 1.8.7.352-2
ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.0-2
Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils suggests:
ii chktex <none>
ii dvidvi <none>
ii dvipng <none>
ii fragmaster <none>
ii lacheck 1.26-11.1
ii latexdiff <none>
ii latexmk <none>
ii purifyeps 1.0a-1
ii xindy 2.4-1
Versions of packages tex-common depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1
ii dpkg 1.16.2
ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1
Versions of packages tex-common suggests:
ii debhelper 9.20120322
Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils is related to:
ii tex-common 3.8
ii texlive-binaries 2011.20120410-1
-- debconf information:
tex-common/check_texmf_wrong:
tex-common/check_texmf_missing:
Attachment:
page1.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document
Attachment:
page2.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document