[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #2348: PDF rotation issue
H. Blischke
h.blischke at srz-berlin.de
Wed Apr 18 07:45:00 PDT 2007
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Looking into the PDFs and into the PS files generated by xpdf's pstops (ver
3.02) reveals the following:
(1) strollingmap:
The PDF defines
/MediaBox [842 595] /Rotate 0
(values rounded) which means a physical landscape page
("A4 transverse") and a portrait orientation, i.e. the
page needs not to be rotated for correct viewing.
The generated PS file contains the correct bounding box and
tells
%%PageOrientation: portrait
which is correct.
But something is weird with this PDF: displaying the PDF and the
generated PS with Ghostscript shows different views; in the
PS file the map displays rotated and scaled down to fit on the
page.
I guess the misbehaviour of this PDF is due to a bug in the
creator application (illustrator 10). Opening the PDF with
Illustrator 11 and saving as PDF seems to be correct.
(2) dayplanner
The PDF contains
/MediaBox [595 842] /Rotate 270
which means a physical portrait media and landscape orientation,
i.e. the page needs to be rotated for correct viewing.
The corresponding PS file contains the correct bounding box and
page size and
%%PageOrientation: landscape
All this seems correct.
In general, there seeme so be some serious misinterpretation on
what to do with pages (media sizes) the width of which is greater
than the heigt.
Link: http://www.cups.org/str.php?L2348
Version: 1.2.10
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