Bug 437323

Summary: 'number-up=4 orientation-requested=4' output question
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Component: cupsAssignee: Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Caolan McNamara 2008-03-13 15:39:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
This is more of a question than a bug. Given the attached .ps and an incantation
like:
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops 185 user title 1 "number-up=4 PageSize=A4
orientation-requested=4" cupsprint.ps > output.ps

Then the output.ps has each subpage clipped to a landscape portion of the
original page. So we can make this happen in e.g. writer with the gtk unix print
dialog and nups 4 and selecting the "landscape" output with portrait input
pages, and I'm wondering if this is a bug, or just the way it has to be, and if
any action should be taken on the OOo or cups side.
Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2008-03-13 15:39:16 UTC 
Created attachment 297944 [details]
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Comment 2 Caolan McNamara 2008-03-13 15:39:49 UTC 
Created attachment 297945 [details]
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Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2008-03-13 16:05:11 UTC 
I'm not really sure those options make sense.  Here's a representation of the input:

+---+  +---+  +---+
|ONE|  |TWO|  |333|
|ONE|  |TWO|  |333|
|ONE|  |TWO|  |333|
+---+  +---+  +---+

and here's a representation of the output we get:

+----------+
|ONE  TWO  |
|ONE  TWO  |
|          |
|333       |
|333       |
|          |
|          |
+----------+

Without 'orientation-requested=4' I would expect the output to be exactly as
above but without the cropping, i.e. four "virtual" portrait pages entirely
covering the area of the physical page, to be seen in portrait.

Can you draw what you expect the output to be when 'orientation-requested=4' is set?
Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 06:01:27 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 5 Brennan Ashton 2008-06-08 01:05:13 UTC 
Since there are insufficient details provided in this report for us to
investigate the issue further, and we have not received feedback to the
information we have requested above, we will assume the problem was not
reproducible, or has been fixed in one of the updates we have released for the
reporter's distribution.

Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade to the latest
update of their distribution, and if this issue turns out to still be
reproducible in the latest update, please reopen this bug with additional
information.

Closing as INSUFFICIENT_DATA.