Created attachment 451641 [details] A sample landscape PDF which gv displays incorrectly Description of problem: gv is unable to properly display some landscape-format PDFs which both xpdf and "gs -sDEVICE=x11" display correctly. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gv-3.7.1-1.fc13.x86_64 (also the same version on F12) How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: Run gv with the attached document as parameter. At the top it says Landscape and y842x595 and the gv window is in landscape format, but the document is displayed sideways. Switch the orientation to Portrait and the document is displayed the right way up but in a portrait-shaped window, and the right-hand edge of the document is cut off. But I have a cunning plan: in my .gv I have defined the media "A4landscape" (with size 842x595). Select that, and now the window is the right shape. Unfortunately... the right-hand side of the document is still clipped off and the area where it should be is blank.
I've passed this on to bug-gv (upstream bug list) and Markus said he will look at it. He also notes that: "gs -sDEVICE=x11 -dFIXEDMDIA ls.pdf" displays the file incorrectly - just like gv does. So this probably is a ghostscript issue. You might try bug-gv for filing bugs in the future as I just package it up.
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gv-3.7.2-1.fc15 / ghostscript-9.02-1.fc15 still seem to be affected. I don't think the referenced external ghostscript bug is relevant. As I'm not sure if there is an upstream bug tracker for gv perhaps you could forward the following to the developer for me? It's to do with the way pdf2dsc is used to find out the document's properties. It's not clear though whether the fix best belongs there or in gv. The document in question typesets the data sideways on a portrait-format canvas and contains a /Rotate property for the page which says that it should be rotated before viewing. Unlike with a PostScript document where %%PageOrientation is just a comment and not obeyed by gs, gs does actually rotate this page and shows it the correct way up. The pdf2dsc program prints out the details as if gs were not going to rotate the page; it outputs "%%PageOrientation: Landscape" and specifies the media as 595 wide and 842 high. So gv *thinks* the document will be printed onto a portrait canvas and then gv rotates it for the display. But actually, gs is already rotating it, so it therefore appears sideways with respect to the canvas that gv supplies. Either: pdf2dsc should never say the document is in Landscape format (because gs always displays it the correct way up) and instead should swap the height and width in the media description (tricky because all media is listed by name at the top of the document); or: gv should interpret Landscape specially when interpreting a pdf file, by swapping the height for the width and then not rotating the document after it is drawn.
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