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--- Begin Message ---Dear TeX-k people, here's a bugreport against dvips, with a suggested fix. I'd be thankful if you could comment on this. As you can see, the codebase is from teTeX-3.0, or dvips(k) 5.95a, and it seems to be still the same in 5.95b in TeXLive 2005. But I haven't checked whether it's still that way in any more current code. Thanks in advance, Fullquote follows, Frank Vincent Fourmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-bin > Version: 3.0-16 > Severity: normal > > Hello ! > > I work with a publishing house, and they use dvips to produce postscript > versions of their books. > They did find recently that sometimes, providing a paper size with the -T > option doesn't produce the > exact size asked. > > For instance, the option -T17cm,25cm does actually produces something way > closer to -T17.6cm,25cm. > This is coming directly from the following code in texk/dvipsk/output.c > (findpapersize, around line > 1000) > > for (ps=papsizes; ps; ps = ps->next) { > if (indelta(ps->xsize-hpapersize) && > indelta(ps->ysize-vpapersize)) { > landscape = 0 ; > break ; > } > } > > Commenting out the break does solve the problem. Even though I can > understand that it is comfortable > to specify an approximate paper size and having it automatically stick to the > closest predefined size > available, it is way better to use it's name, and not to mess the things for > people who really need > precise paper size, such as publishers. > > Here is what I propose: > > * unless this feature has some important reasons to be, could it simply be > removed ? (it wasn't > present, as far as I know, in TeTex 2 series) > * in any other case, would it be possible to provide a switch to turn it on > or off at will ? > > Thanks for considering this report ! > > Vincent Fourmond > > > -- System Information: > (unnecessary) -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
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