Description of problem: The version of pdftops based on xpdf could handle changes in page sizes and orientation within the PDF file. That is to say, if the first page of a PDF file was landscape and the second was portrait, the xpdf-based pdftops would generate a PostScript file whose first page was landscape and second was portrait. However, it appears that the current poppler-based pdftops filter cannot do this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cups-1.3.7-18.el5_5.7 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to print a pdf file with varying page orientations (or sizes). Actual results: All pages printed will have the orientation of the first page. Expected results: Pages with different orientations will be printed properly. Additional info: This issue appears to have been addressed in upstream poppler with the addition of an -origpagesizes option. See: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19777 and http://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/?id=2cf9e6a2318b770ae62572944c687576d1801d31 Although upstream CUPS doesn't seem to use the -origpagesizes option.
I haven't been able to see what is wrong with the output. I created a PDF file 'portscape.pdf' in OpenOffice.org, by typing "Portrait", then inserting a manual page break to style "Landscape", then typing "Landscape" and exporting to PDF. I've printed this to a variety of printers, each using a different driver type, and don't see any problem. Can you explain the symptom please?
After creating this Bug, I ran the same test (creating a PDF with OpenOffice) and came up with the same results. I just didn't have time to update the Bug -- you beat me to it. :) The symptom is that I have a PDF which both gs and evince will display the first page as landscape and the second page as portrait. However, when I print the document using lp, both pages are printed portrait. (Interestingly, when the customer prints using lp, both pages are landscape.) If the file is printed from evince, then it is displayed properly. Printing was working correctly for the customer in RHEL 5.4, so I'm assuming that the switch from the xpdf-based pdftops to the poppler-based filter is causing some issues. Based on that assumption, I thought that the older pdftops had some sort of feature that did something similar to the "-origpagesizes" option in poppler. I'll upload the PDF shortly.
Created attachment 453704 [details] landrait.pdf Looks like this PDF causes the same problem. This is landscape on page 1 and portrait on page 2. The symptom is that page 2 is actually rotated, so that instead of: +------+ | Po | | rt | | ra | | it | +------+ we get this: +----------+ | Po | | rt | +----------+
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