Hi, > > When I use xpdf to print a PDF file of "letter" page size such as the > > test file attached (using the "lpr" command, which is the default), > > the file is printed in A3 instead of A4. If I use "lpr file.pdf" > > directly, I get A4 output as expected. > > The cause is that xpdf uses pdftops before sending the output to lpr. > Indeed, as I've said on > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781253#72 > > I have exactly the same problem when I run pdftops manually then lpr > on the generated .ps file. So, this is not really a bug in xpdf, > except one may wonder whether it should use pdftops.
pdftops is a frontend to the poppler library, which is also used by xpdf to generate the PostScript that is then sent to lpr (or written to a file). But since you said (in 2015) that this not a bug in xpdf, and the above-mentioned bug has fixed versions (though has not been closed, perhaps by mistake?), do you think this should be reassigned to pdftops / poppler, or has it become obsolete and solved in ghostscript? Florian
