<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><div>The Adobe document 5001.DSC_Spec.pdf "PostScript Language <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Document Structuring </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Conventions Specification" </span>Version 3.0, <span style="font-size: 12pt;">25 September 1992, says on page 39 about the BoundingBox comment:</span></div><div><br></div>"This comment specifies the bounding box that encloses all marks painted <span style="font-size: 12pt;">on all pages of a document. That is, it must be a “high water mark” in all </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">directions for marks made on any page. The four arguments correspond to </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the lower left ( llx , lly ) and upper right corners ( urx , ury ) of the bounding box </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">in the default user coordinate system (PostScript units)."</span><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and gives an example where the BoundingBox is the smallest rectangle that covers the PageBoundingBoxes of the pages in the document.<br></span><br>If you are worried about breaking things that depend on the current behavior of pdftops, would it work to add a command line option? pdftops already has -origpagesize and -nocrop options.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>William<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">To: poppler@lists.freedesktop.org<br>From: stefan.brandner@gmx.at<br>Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:02:03 +0200<br>Subject: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript<br><br> <hr> <pre>I am using the patch now for several month and I can prove it is working fine. So if the code quality is ok for you Albert why not pushing it? Regards Stefan Brandner El Dijous, 7 de maig de 2015, a les 09:34:09, Martin Pahl va escriure: ><i> Hi, </i>><i> </i>><i> I sent patches to fix the bug: </i>><i> </i>><i> <a href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87161" target="_blank">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87161</a> </i>><i> </i>><i> Those patches were automatically sent to poppler-bugs mailing list. But as I </i>><i> see no reaction to my patch submission (poppler-bugs seems to be a </i>><i> mailinglist without human interaction) I just want to ask, what is the </i>><i> right way to submit patches. </i> It is. What we need is more people with time to review patches. Cheers, Albert ><i> By the way this bug is really annoying as it makes all PDF viewers using </i>><i> poppler useless for printing documents that do not have the page size of the </i>><i> output device (e.g. printer). On the other hand acroread is not an </i>><i> alternative anymore as Adobe has discontinued support for Linux. </i>><i> </i>><i> Regards, </i>><i> </i>><i> Martin Pahl </i> </pre> <br>_______________________________________________ poppler mailing list poppler@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</div></div> </div></body> </html>