<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I can look at the C++ code to check that the code does what it claims to do.<div> </div><div>I think that what it claims to do is correct, but I work mostly with single page documents, so someone who knows more about DSCs should look at that.</div><div> </div><div>Regards,</div><div>William <div>> From: aacid@kde.org > To: poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 00:02:01 +0200 > Subject: Re: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript > > El Thursday 22 October 2015, a les 04:12:41, William Bader va escriure: > > Hi Stefan, > > > > I am a poppler user, not a popper maintainer. I can't push changes. Sorry. > > But you can review them. Pushing is very easy, it's the review part that is > hard. > > Cheers, > Albert > > > > > Regards, > > William > > > > From: stefan.brandner@gmx.at > > To: williambader@hotmail.com; poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > > Subject: Aw: RE: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with > > "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript Date: > > Thu, 22 Oct 2015 09:18:11 +0200 > > > > > > This printing problem appear at pdf files which are coming from scanner. > > > > Since years there are reports of this problem: > > > > https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=97572 > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761487 > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=338456 > > > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195719 > > > > > > > > > > We now found the root cause and have a fix. > > > > > > > > So if Albert has no time at all I wonder if you (William) can take over this > > solution and push it. > > > > As Martin Pahl wrote he is willing to support and explain his code. > > > > > > > > Regards > > > > Stefan > > > > > > > > > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2015 um 01:44 Uhr > > > > Von: "William Bader" <williambader@hotmail.com> > > > > An: "Stefan Brandner" <stefan.brandner@gmx.at>, > > "poppler@lists.freedesktop.org" <poppler@lists.freedesktop.org> > > > > Betreff: RE: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with > > "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript > > > > > > > > > > The Adobe document 5001.DSC_Spec.pdf "PostScript Language Document > > Structuring Conventions Specification" Version 3.0, 25 September 1992, says > > on page 39 about the BoundingBox comment: > > > > > > "This comment specifies the bounding box that encloses all marks painted on > > all pages of a document. That is, it must be a “high water mark” in all > > directions for marks made on any page. The four arguments correspond to the > > lower left ( llx , lly ) and upper right corners ( urx , ury ) of the > > bounding box in the default user coordinate system (PostScript units)." > > > > > > > > and gives an example where the BoundingBox is the smallest rectangle that > > covers the PageBoundingBoxes of the pages in the document. > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > William > > > > > > > > To: poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > > > > From: stefan.brandner@gmx.at > > > > Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 19:02:03 +0200 > > > > Subject: [poppler] Printing of certain PDF files does not work with > > "fit-to-page" because of wrong BoundingBox values in the PostScript > > > > > > > > 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: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I sent patches to fix the bug: > > > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87161 > > > > > > Those patches were automatically sent to poppler-bugs mailing list. But as > > > I see no reaction to my patch submission (poppler-bugs seems to be a > > > mailinglist without human interaction) I just want to ask, what is the > > > right way to submit patches. > > > > It is. > > > > What we need is more people with time to review patches. > > > > Cheers, > > Albert > > > > > By the way this bug is really annoying as it makes all PDF viewers using > > > poppler useless for printing documents that do not have the page size of > > > the output device (e.g. printer). On the other hand acroread is not an > > > alternative anymore as Adobe has discontinued support for Linux. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Martin Pahl > > > > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list > > poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > poppler@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler </div></div> </div></body> </html>