Bug#669369: texlive-extra-utils: pdfjoin (pdfjam) canot join pages
reassign 669369 texlive-latex-recommended
retitle 669369 pdfpages: "rotateoversize" mess with undersized pages
notforwarded 669369
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Dear David,
(please keep the bug-number address in Cc, so that the mails get
archived at the proper place)
David Firth <d.firth@warwick.ac.uk> wrote:
> Dear Frank
>
> Thanks for your message. I haven't been able to check this, but
> I think that the behaviour reported below is not a bug. The
> complainer is simply saying that the software does not do what
> he/she wants. The answer is that the complainer should not use
> the software if they don't find it useful.
>
> I think that the behaviour reported here is as documented. The
> complainer says that an option is undocumented, but that's not
> true. It's in the pdfpages manual, to which explicit reference
> is made in the documentation.
>
> I am sorry if I seem grumpy about this.
No problem - I think that you are right from your point of view.
However, some problems still persist - but that is an issue of
pdfpages.sty. Therefore I'm reassigning the bug.
>> > 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.
This can probably be reproduced with pdfpages in a LaTeX document.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung
VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
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