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

[Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

reassign 659772 texlive-science
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<jaakov@ro.ru> writes:

> 1. Create a fresh file, say, q.tex, with the following contents:
> \documentclass[landscape]{sciposter}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \begin{document}
> abcABC
> \end{document}
>
> 2. Run
>  latex q && dvips -o q.ps q.dvi
>
> 3a. Run
>    gv q.ps &
>  or
>    evince q.ps &
>  Observe that the abcABC is center-mirrored in the right lower
> corner. It should not be.

The whole page is turned, as you can see if you add a title or more
text. 

> 3b. Run
>    xdvi q.dvi
>  or
>    evince q.dvi
>  Observe that the image is normal, not mirrored. So, most probably,
> the error happens in dvips.

In addition, xdvi issues a ghostscript error message. 

> I would be grateful if anyone with more insight into the interplay
> between sciposter, hyperref, latex, and dvips could repair this issue.

I'm pretty sure this is a problem of an incompatibility of sciposter and
hyperref.  Since hyperref is more general, I'm reassigning this to
texlive-science which contains sciposter.

This does not at all mean this bug will be solved by the Debian
maintainers of TeXLive. This is clearly beyond what we can care for.
Please ask the author of sciposter, or ask on a general TeX Mailing
list. 

Regards, Frank