[cups.general] MacOSX landscape problems with pdftops

[Paul Ortman]

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Michael Sweet wrote:
> The CUPS pdftops filter doesn't set the page size via setpagedevice,
> and it doesn't try to automatically rotate the page to fit on the
> media.  In addition, we use the PPD file to set the imageable area
> so that pages are properly offset and scaled when those options are
> chosen.

Thanks for the info.

> The Gentoo (and Debian, and a whole host of other) folks don't want
> to use the CUPS-provided pdftops since they then have to maintain
> two separate sets of security patches whenever a problem is found in
> Xpdf.

Seems reasonable from their perspective I guess.

>  The newer version of Xpdf (which is part of CUPS 1.2) also
> renders some PDF files better than the older 2.x version in CUPS
> 1.1.x.

Something to watch out for.

> Anyways, I'm hoping that we can come up with a solution that
> satisfies all, but there may still be some growing pains over the
> next year...

Good enough.  Thanks again for your quick replies.

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