[cups.bugs] [MOD] STR #3063: pdftops does not supportmulti-page-size documents or page size determined by document
Michael R Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Wed Jan 28 09:27:22 PST 2009
Till Kamppeter wrote:
> This fix looks correct in theory, but in practise it does not work.
>
> The intention is to do not impose a paper size if the user did not
> supply an option to set the paper size. Unfortunately, CUPS always adds
> "media=<PPD default paper size>" to the fifth command line argument of
> the filters and so the pdftops filter assumes that the user has set the
> paper size. Due to this it is still not possible to print correctly PDF
> documents which contain pages of different sizes.
>
> Is it possible to suppress the addition of "media=<PPD default paper
> size>" by configuration? Or is another fix required?
Another change would be required. The kicker is that we want to
have a default media size (the one coming from the PPD file or one
set by the admin/user) but don't want to apply that default for PDF
printing unless "fitplot" (or the newer fit-to-page that replaces it)
is set.
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Michael R Sweet Senior Printing System Engineer
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