[cairo] crash report and question

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Tue Oct 21 14:15:50 PDT 2008


Adrian Johnson wrote:
> The reason we are not setting %%BoundingBox and %%PageBoundingBox 
> correctly is that viewers like Evince and Okular are not using these DSC 
> comments correctly. Evince and Okular are using the bounding box as the 
> page size.
> 
> What we should be doing is using %%DocumentMedia and %%PageMedia to set 
> the page size. But first we need to get these viewers to use the correct 
> DSC comments before we change can this. Currently, gv is the only viewer 
> I know of that does the right thing.

Are those viewer bugs reported?  We need to wait a year or two after they are
fixed before we can use the feature.


behdad


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