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Bug#468225: Patch to make pdfjam use /etc/papersize



On 28.04.12 01:07, Jim Avera wrote:

Hi Jim,

> Attached is a patch to make pdfjam read /etc/papersize with the same effect
> as explicit options --letterpaper --a4paper etc.   The patch looks big
> because I had
> to relocate the error_exit() function higher up in the script so it
> could be called
> by the new code (which is only a few lines).
> 
Sorry, late response.

Many thanks for the patch! Unfortunately we can't use the patch as it is.

1. Simply adding "paper" to end of the string found in /etc/papersize
does not always give the correct result.
2. The geometry package (used by pdfjam) knows not exactly the same set
of paper sizes as libpaper1 (compare
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpaper1\:amd64.templates w/ the papersizes found in
the geometry documentation.

So one would have to implement some kind of translation table. Would you
be so kind to do that? Thanks!

Hilmar
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