<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi Stefan,<br><br>I am a poppler user, not a popper maintainer. I can't push changes. Sorry.<br><br>Regards,<br>William <br><br><hr>From: stefan.brandner@gmx.at<br>To: williambader@hotmail.com; poppler@lists.freedesktop.org<br>Subject: Aw: RE: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript<br>Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:18:11 +0200<br><br><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12.0px;"><div> <div>This printing problem appear at pdf files which are coming from scanner.</div> <div>Since years there are reports of this problem:</div> <div>https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=97572<br> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761487<br> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338456<br> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195719</div> <div> <div> </div> <div>We now found the root cause and have a fix.</div> <div> </div> <div>So if Albert has no time at all I wonder if you (William) can take over this solution and push it.</div> <div>As Martin Pahl wrote he is willing to support and explain his code.</div> <div> </div> <div>Regards</div> <div>Stefan</div> <div> </div> <div style="padding:10px 0 10px 10px;border-left:2px solid #C3D9E5;word-wrap:break-word;"> <div style=""><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2015 um 01:44 Uhr<br> <b>Von:</b> "William Bader" <williambader@hotmail.com><br> <b>An:</b> "Stefan Brandner" <stefan.brandner@gmx.at>, "poppler@lists.freedesktop.org" <poppler@lists.freedesktop.org><br> <b>Betreff:</b> RE: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript</div> <div> <div class=ecxhmmessage> <div> <div>The Adobe document 5001.DSC_Spec.pdf "PostScript Language <span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Document Structuring </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">Conventions Specification" </span>Version 3.0, <span style="font-size:12.0pt;">25 September 1992, says on page 39 about the BoundingBox comment:</span></div> <div> </div> "This comment specifies the bounding box that encloses all marks painted <span style="font-size:12.0pt;">on all pages of a document. That is, it must be a “high water mark” in all </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">directions for marks made on any page. The four arguments correspond to </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">the lower left ( llx , lly ) and upper right corners ( urx , ury ) of the bounding box </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">in the default user coordinate system (PostScript units)."</span> <div> </div> <div><span style="font-size:12.0pt;">and gives an example where the BoundingBox is the smallest rectangle that covers the PageBoundingBoxes of the pages in the document.</span><br> <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> </div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>William<br> <div> <hr id=ecxstopSpelling>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> <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 <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" target=_blank>http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> </div></body> </html>