Bug#678082: Landscape-mode is broken in XeLaTeX

[Juhapekka Tolvanen <juhtolv@iki.fi>]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, +11:15:34 EEST (UTC +0300),
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> pressed some keys:

> On 19.06.12 Juhapekka Tolvanen (juhtolv@iki.fi) wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Package: texlive-xetex
> > Version: 2012.20120611-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > Please, check out files in this WWW-directory:
> > 
> > http://iki.fi/juhtolv/tmp/bugreports/LaTeX/02/
> > 
> > Problem is this:
> > 
> > juhtolv_tolle_harjoitukset.landscape.pdf should be a
> > landscape-oriented file. In realuity in its first page that
> > landscape-mode is broken. In other pages averything is fine.
> > 
> I could compile your TeX input file using xelatex and all pages are
> in landscape.

What commands you used? What if you run xelatex-command as seen in
that file called compileall.sh ?:

xelatex -recorder -src-specials -file-line-error \
-output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E -p a4 -l" \
${DOCSBASENAME}.landscape.tex

What the heck? Guess what!: I removed all instances of this from that
aforementioned script:

-output-driver="xdvipdfmx -q -E -p a4 -l"

Now all pages are in landscape. When I had TeX Live 2011, those
commandline-flags were really needed; I found them via Googling. If i
give command "xdvipdfmx -help", it still gives those same command line
flags and they make sense. So, what is going on?

Maybe this particular bug can be closed.


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