Description of problem: Running the attached .ps file (the first few pages of www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos341/handouts/mathcs.pdf) gives a messed up PS: No borders for the first sheet, the first page isn't rotated as it should. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mpage-2.5.6-2.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mpage -2 15.ps > 15-2.ps 2. gv 15-2.ps 3. Actual results: 15-2.ps sheet 1 seems to be the original page 1 overwritten by the (reduced and rotated) page 2, and that in turn seems to overwrite the border (as seen on the second sheet). Expected results: Additional info: Yes, I am still using mpage.
Created attachment 299519 [details] A small example file that shows the problem (see bug for details)
BTW, I seem to remember a similar problem with mpage from /way/ before.
Are you absolutely sure that the original PDF is OK? If I try to process it by pdf2ps it complaints: **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored. **** The file was produced by: **** >>>> pdfTeX-1.10b <<<< **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF **** specification. The produced PostScript looks to be similar to yours but can be processed with mpage and result is OK. I really don't know whether this is a bug in mpage or in the original file or in the intermediate ps file.
That is the file as downloaded, it might very well be broken in some way. I just checked, here pdf2ps (ghostscript-8.62-3.fc9.i386) doesn't complain and the result of mpage-2.5.6-2.fc9.i386 is a messed-up first page. What versions do you have?
I have dowloaded the pdf and processed it using ghostscript-8.60-5.fc8 and mpage-2.5.4-7.1.
You're right -- things look different on F-9. The resulting file doesn't show the title page correctly after opening in Evince. After scrolling a few pages down and up again the title page looks ok... This is strange.
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