Bug 524495

Summary:	Default output media type for printing is wrong
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	davidwillmore
Component:	xpdf	Assignee:	Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	erecio, tcallawa
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Description davidwillmore 2009-09-20 20:01:10 UTC

Description of problem:
When xpdf is opened on a .pdf file with the page size/media type of Letter, and the 'print' button is pressed and then 'print to file' is slected, the resulting .ps file will have a media type of A4.  It should have the same media type as the input file. The default should be the same as specifying '-paper match' on the command line.  This would cause xpdf to generate output PostScript files with the same media type as the .pdf file being displayed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xpdf-3.02-13.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Completely

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a .pdf file with the media type of Letter
2. "print to file"
  
Actual results:
The output file will have a media type of A4.

Expected results:
The output should have a media type of Letter--same as the input file.

Additional info:
The .pdf file I used was http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips197/fips-197.pdf

Comment 1 Tom "spot" Callaway 2010-01-04 15:24:10 UTC

Are you sure about this? When I tried to reproduce this issue with the fips-197.pdf, the .ps output was formatted Letter (according to evince).

Do you have something set in /etc/papersize?

I'd like to be able to reproduce this bug before I write a patch to fix it. :)

Comment 2 davidwillmore 2010-01-04 17:21:28 UTC

I'm afraid that environment no longer exists.  The machine in question has been moved to F12 and no longer evidences the problem.  I'll see if I can find the old archive of it before the upgrade and see about the contents of that file.

Comment 3 Tom "spot" Callaway 2010-01-04 17:30:11 UTC

Hmm, its odd that F12 wouldn't also have the same issue... let me know if you are unable to reproduce, and I'll build a F11 instance.

Comment 4 EMR_Fedora 2010-01-29 19:41:09 UTC

F12 has the same issue, but F11 for me did not. I am using F12 x86_64 and F11 x86_64. Below are my findings...

The only benchmark that I am using is configuring KMail and printing an email message. I am also using Firefox and printing a web page. I have tried other Gnome Vs. KDE applications and noticed that the KDE apps consistently default to A4 instead of my set default of US-Letter.

I think I have been able to reproduce the problem consistently, and have narrowed it down to the following:

1) If I use the system-config-printer, and add an HP LaserJet 4200 Series printer via JetDirect, it selects a Postscript driver as the default (Make/Model): "HP LaserJet 4200 Series Postscript (recommended)"

When I print to that from Kmail/KDE the printer asks for A4 paper even though the defaults are set to US-Letter.

2) If I change the printer driver (Make/Model) to "HP LaserJet 4200 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.4" when I print from KMail/KDE the printer correctly uses US-Letter.

Is this a bug?

However, while Kmail prints to the CUPS+Guten driver OK, Okular still insists on printing/formatting the page for A4 even though I have selected US-Letter and the default is US-Letter. Also, I tried to print with KMail from Gnome and it also was messed up.

In fact, I tried to print to a PDF file with firefox, kmail, and okular with the gnome based applications it correctly selected my default of US-Letter. Kmail and Okular, from within Gnome *and* KDE when I printed to a file, it selected A4 instead of my default. Printing to a file does NOT allow me to select a paper size.

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