Bug 236753

Summary: Known-good PDF handling problem (Kew Gardens strolling map)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Component: cupsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6   
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 1.2.10-7.fc6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-05-22 08:06:09 UTC Type: ---
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cups-pdftops-landscape.patch none

Description Tim Waugh 2007-04-17 15:13:07 UTC 
Description of problem:
This PDF document:
https://www.rbgkew.org.uk/visitor/maps/strollingmap.pdf

does not print correctly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cups-1.2.10-3.fc6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. lp strollingmap.pdf
  
Actual results:
Lots of blank space around the top and the left edge of the resulting landscape
page, with cropped right and bottom edges.

Expected results:
As shown in evince.
Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2007-04-17 15:14:27 UTC 
Printing to file from xpdf gives a working PS file, compared to the broken file
produced by the CUPS pdftops filter.  Diff:

--- strollingmap-cups.ps        2007-04-17 15:57:59.000000000 +0100
+++ strollingmap-xpdf.ps        2007-04-17 15:58:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
 %!PS-Adobe-3.0
-%cupsRotation: 270
-%Producer: xpdf/pdftops 3.01
-%%Creator: Adobe Illustrator 10
-%%Title: untitled
+%%Creator: xpdf/pdftops 3.01
 %%LanguageLevel: 2
 %%DocumentSuppliedResources: (atend)
-%%DocumentMedia: plain 595 842 0 () ()
-%%BoundingBox: 0 0 595 842
+%%DocumentMedia: plain 612 792 0 () ()
+%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
 %%Pages: 1
 %%EndComments
 %%BeginDefaults
@@ -615,14 +612,15 @@
   /eth/ntilde/ograve/oacute/ocircumflex/otilde/odieresis/divide
   /oslash/ugrave/uacute/ucircumflex/udieresis/yacute/thorn/ydieresis]
 pdfMakeFont
-595 842 false pdfSetup
+612 792 false pdfSetup
 %%EndSetup
 %%Page: 1 1
 %%BeginPageSetup
-%%PageOrientation: Landscape
+%%PageOrientation: Portrait
 pdfStartPage
-180 rotate
--718.5 -719 translate
+90 rotate
+0 -586.304 translate
+0.9406 0.9406 scale
 0 0 842 596 re W
 %%EndPageSetup
 [] 0 d
@@ -637,6 +635,8 @@
 [0] SC
 false op
 false OP
+0 0 841.89 595.275 re
+W
 q
 q
 1 i
Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2007-04-17 16:49:12 UTC 
Reported upstream.
Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2007-04-18 11:39:46 UTC 
Created attachment 152890 [details]
cups-pdftops-landscape.patch

This patch rectifies the problem, but I'm not convinced it is correct.
Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2007-04-18 12:51:04 UTC 
Here is the diff between the final (i.e. after pdftops|pstops filters) output
and a correct-looking result:

--- strollingmap-ps.ps  2007-04-18 11:08:49.000000000 +0100
+++ strollingmap-working-ps.ps  2007-04-18 11:32:03.000000000 +0100
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@
 %%PageOrientation: Landscape
 pdfStartPage
 180 rotate
--718.5 -719 translate
+-842 -586.304 translate
 0 0 842 596 re W
 %%EndPageSetup
 [] 0 d
Comment 5 Tim Waugh 2007-05-09 13:02:52 UTC 
*** Bug 236756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2007-05-21 22:44:43 UTC 
Fixed in update: cups-1.2.10-7.fc6