Bug#669369: texlive-extra-utils: pdfjoin (pdfjam) canot join pages
forwarded 669369 d.firth@warwick.ac.uk
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Dear David,
we (i.e. Debian TeXLive packages) have received a bug report about
pdfjoin. Can you please comment on that?
TIA, Frank
Michal Suchanek <michal.suchanek@ruk.cuni.cz> wrote:
> 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'.
>
>
> ######################################
> 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
> ######################################
> 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
> ######################################
> 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
> ######################################
> 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:
>
>
--
Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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