Bug#659772: landscape sciposter + hyperref + latex + dvips = center-mirrored image

[Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.oberdiek@googlemail.com> writes:

> The PostScript language allows the setting of the page size:
> operator `setpagedevice', entry `PageSize', but entry `Orientation'
> is only intended for roll-fed media. Also there is no easy way
> to extract these data without a PostScript interpreter.
> At least there are DSC-comments that allows the specification
> of the page size and orientation. Thus there are several ways
> for specifying (partly also version dependent) and some will
> work on somewhere and others somewhere else.
>   Even worse if the width is greater than the height. That seems
> to be the main problem here.

In other words, this is neither a bug in one of the involved packages,
nor in dvips.  However, I fancy, it could be worked around if sciposter
had some code for interaction with hyperref?

Is this true?

Regards, Frank