[cups.general] MacOSX landscape problems with pdftops

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jan 3 10:09:39 PST 2006


Helge Blischke wrote:
> 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?

The regular version of pdftops rotates the page, the CUPS version
does not (sorry if I was unclear on that...)

>>>   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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