Bug 4842
Summary: | mark "config.ps" as a configuration file | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Ben Liblit <liblit> |
Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Tim Waugh <twaugh> |
Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 1.0 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 1999-09-03 21:02:51 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Ben Liblit
1999-09-02 00:29:44 UTC
This problem is fixed in #3397. Supply a DVIPS_OPTIONS="-t letter" that is now honored AFAIK. Please reopen if #3397 does not actually solve the problem and I'll try to get this sorted out. While bug #3379 is certainly related, the fix described there does not address the problem documented here. Bug #3379 is concerned only with the RedHat printing infrastructure, and the suggested fix using $DVIPS_OPTIONS only works in conjunction with RedHat's print filter scripts. The bug described here is more basic: that "dvips" cannot be reconfigured to use a different paper size without those configuration changes being undone by a subsequent RPM upgrade. I am not talking about using RedHat's print filters; I am simply talking about using "dvips" to produce a PostScript file. Note that there are many instances where one will want to produce a PostScript file without immediately printing it. For example, PostScript documents are the common medium of exchange for research papers in computer science, and doubtless many other fields. Thus, it must be possible to configure "dvips" properly on its own. I have no issue with RedHat's printing infrastructure per se. But a paper size solution that only works within that context is just not sufficiently general. /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps is marked %config in tetex-1.0.6-6. |