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Subject:    [Bug 70681] The result of printing a landscape document is a
From:       Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () virgilio ! it>
Date:       2004-04-04 13:47:27
Message-ID: 20040404134727.15279.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From mikelima virgilio it  2004-04-04 15:47 -------
On Sunday 04 April 2004 12:03, Stefan Kebekus wrote:
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> ------- Additional Comments From kebekus kde org  2004-04-04 12:03 -------
> Dear Luciano, Klaus,
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> thank you for your efforts. As much as I understand neither KDVI nor
> "dvips" will produce proper "landscape" PostScript on your machines. Could
> you please do the following experiment, and let me know about the results:
>
> 1) Take your DVI file, say test.dvi
>
> 2) Try and produce a landscape PS file, using "dvips -t landscape test.dvi
> -o test.ps".
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> 3) Is the so generated PS-file in landscape mode?
>

Yes. Well, sort of. To visualize it correctly, I must change viewmode to
"Seascape" in kghostview.

> 3a) If "yes", does KDVI also produce landscape PS, if you "Print to a PS
> file", or use anything but the "CUPS print system"
>

Not really. The text is rotated, but not the page, so the text is trimmed on 
the right side.

> 3b) If "no", please
>
> - Send me the output of dvips

You can find it in the attachment.
>
> - Check if your DVI file contains page size information by running "dvitype
> test.dvi | grep papersize". If it does, the program will print a line like
> "2886: xxx 'papersize=8.5in,11in'". If so, please use Emacs, look for the
> word papersize in the dvi-file, and change it into something of equal
> length that dvips won't understand, e.g. "popersize". Then try again at
> (2).

There is no papersize information in the file. 

I really hope this helps.

Luciano

PS The thumbnails in kghostview have the wrong asapect ratio (The pages look 
stretched vertically up to a portrait size.)  



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