forwarded 669369 [email protected] stop Dear David,
we (i.e. Debian TeXLive packages) have received a bug report about pdfjoin. Can you please comment on that? TIA, Frank Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: texlive-extra-utils > Version: 2011.20120322-1 > Severity: normal > > Hello, > > I tried to use pdfjoin which is part of TeX to join PDF document pages. > > It turns out that when the first page of the document is slightly larger > than the rest of the pages this prevents pdfjam from producing usable > output. The first page has correct orientation but the following pages > are rotated. > > It seems that the undocumented parameter --rotate-oversized (set to > true) might be the culprit. However > > 1) the parameter is not documented > 2) the pages are not oversized, they are undersized > 3) rotating the pages is in no way useful since they are actually the > same format (landscape). It would be only useful if rotating the page > would yield larger page size after fitting it to the output paper size. > > Attaching sample (empty) pages. > > $ pdfjoin --frame true page1.pdf page2.pdf > ---- > pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 2.08. > pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults... > (none found) > pdfjam: Effective call for this run of pdfjam: > /usr/bin/pdfjam --fitpaper 'true' --rotateoversize 'true' --suffix > joined --frame 'true' -- page1.pdf - page2.pdf - > pdfjam: Calling pdflatex... > pdfjam: Finished. Output was to '/scratch/tmp/page2-joined.pdf'. > > > ###################################### > List of ls-R files > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587 Apr 18 20:05 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Apr 14 01:43 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 79 Dec 9 2010 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texlive/texmf/ls-R -> > /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEMAIN > ###################################### > Config files > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Apr 18 20:05 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4746 Apr 18 20:05 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Apr 10 10:09 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> > /var/lib/texmf/updmap.cfg-DEBIAN > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3245 Apr 18 20:05 > /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat > ###################################### > Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/ > total 8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Nov 10 2008 mktex.cnf > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 838 Apr 18 20:05 texmf.cnf > ###################################### > md5sums of texmf.d > ca40c66f144b4bafc3e59a2dd32ecb9c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf > 1df66bc319cec731e202eaf39f5d85e1 /etc/texmf/texmf.d/96JadeTeX.cnf > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, > 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils depends on: > ii dpkg 1.16.2 > ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-6 > ii python 2.7.2-10 > ii tex-common 3.8 > ii texlive-base 2011.20120410-1 > ii texlive-binaries 2011.20120410-1 > ii texlive-common 2011.20120410-1 > > Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils recommends: > ii ghostscript 9.05~dfsg-4 > ii ruby 4.8 > ii ruby1.8 [ruby-interpreter] 1.8.7.352-2 > ii ruby1.9.1 [ruby-interpreter] 1.9.3.0-2 > > Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils suggests: > ii chktex <none> > ii dvidvi <none> > ii dvipng <none> > ii fragmaster <none> > ii lacheck 1.26-11.1 > ii latexdiff <none> > ii latexmk <none> > ii purifyeps 1.0a-1 > ii xindy 2.4-1 > > Versions of packages tex-common depends on: > ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1 > ii dpkg 1.16.2 > ii ucf 3.0025+nmu1 > > Versions of packages tex-common suggests: > ii debhelper 9.20120322 > > Versions of packages texlive-extra-utils is related to: > ii tex-common 3.8 > ii texlive-binaries 2011.20120410-1 > > -- debconf information: > tex-common/check_texmf_wrong: > tex-common/check_texmf_missing: > > -- Frank Küster Sprecher B90/Grüne OV Miltenberg und Umgebung VCD Miltenberg, ADFC Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg Debian Developer (TeXLive) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
