[cups.general] MacOSX landscape problems with pdftops

[Helge Blischke]

Michael Sweet wrote:
> 
> Paul Ortman wrote:
> > ...
> >   Obviously, [3] is a PDF v1.3 and [4] is a PS 3.0 document.  It appears
> >   to me that my version of CUPS already comes with the "alternate
> >   pdftops" perl script that acts as a wrapper around xpdf (as described
> >   in [6], which is the best information/workaround I was able to find on
> >   the lists.
> 
> Right, that that version of the pdftops filter does not support
> automatic landscape rotation properly - the standard CUPS version
> does...
The media box in the PDFs is specified as
	/MediaBox [0 0 792 612]
which means applying "automatic landscape rotation" really does the
wrong thing. And, shouldn't this be dond by the pstops filter?
> 
> >   Is there some configuration on the MacOSX clients that I could do to
> >   force them to decode all files to PS 3.0 instead of PDF before sending
> >   them over to the CUPS server?  Even better would be a fix I can put on
> >   the server side which would make all the problems disappear.
> 
> Use the CUPS-provided pdftops filter instead.
> 
> --
>
> Michael Sweet

Helge

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