On 2007-03-01 11:41:37 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I'm not sure it is contradictory, but the discussion in bug 365506 > gave a wrong solution. The bug reporter said that the PS file was > for A4 paper size, but was converted to Letter paper size (but this > is strange since ps2pdf seems to run fine here). What I suggest > would be consistent with what is required in this bug: keep the > original paper size. For instance, what if the user had an A3 or > US-Legal (i.e. larger than A4) PS file and wanted to convert it to > PDF? Using /etc/papersize here would clearly be a bad choice.
Well, when I'm saying that ps2pdf seems to run fine, in fact this depends on the file. When /etc/papersize is empty (to provide no defaults -- i.e. letter is the default), ps2pdf converts some A4 files into A4 (that's OK), but some other ones (landscape ones?) into letter, though both contain: %%DocumentPaperSizes: a4 But perhaps there is some detection based on the bounding box which doesn't work reliably. The landscape file has: %%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842 while the portrait file has: %%BoundingBox: 0 0 596 842 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
