Package: xpdf
Version: 3.02-12
Severity: important

Since squeeze xpdf cannot properly print (or save as postscript
in a printable way) many documents, including landscape ones and
those with unusual paper sizes.

With pdftops from the old xpdf-utils things worked correctly,
with pdftops from poppler-utils it only works with "-paper a4"
command line argument. Looking at the source that is because
xpdf used to consult /etc/papersize while poppler generates
a postscript of the size of the pdf document.
(And the printers here only have A4 paper, not landscape A4 paper,
nor A3 paper).

For xpdf the situation is even worse, as the -paper option does not
work. xpdf still sets globalParams->setPSPaperSize but poppler does
not use that value. (You need to call new PSOutputDev with additional
arguments for papersize and most likely duplex).

        Bernhard R. Link

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xpdf depends on:
ii  lesstif2                      1:0.95.2-1 OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.5-8  GCC support library
ii  libpoppler5                   0.12.4-1.2 PDF rendering library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.5-8    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-4  X11 client-side library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.7-1  X11 toolkit intrinsics library

Versions of packages xpdf recommends:
ii  gsfonts-x11                   0.21       Make Ghostscript fonts available t
pn  poppler-data                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  poppler-utils                 0.12.4-1.2 PDF utilitites (based on libpopple

xpdf suggests no packages.



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