Hi Albert, On 29/10/2009, at 7:10 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> What do you guys think of > > Normalize pages (autorotate landscape pages to portrait) > http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24774 > > I'm not against it, but i don't want our tools to end up having > 1500 different > switches either. I, for one, am totally against such a mis-feature being made either default or too easy to select. PDF is an electronic format; pages do not need to be either the same size nor the same shape. Even when they are, then working out when to rotate is a problem that can really only be solved by a person looking at the page --- unless care has been taken to tag that a page *should* be viewed at an orientation different to how it was placed into the PDF. I've seen examples of pages which a PDF viewer (using auto-rotate) could not get right. It is very disturbing when preparing slides for a presentation, and the viewer switches the orientation on you, due to some kind of heuristics about the content, which are rules that are either unknown or nearly impossible to work around. > > Albert I've no objection to there being an option which allows a reader to select auto-rotate for a particular document. But this should never, ever be the default action. Hope his helps, Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ross Moore [email protected] Mathematics Department office: E7A-419 Macquarie University tel: +61 (0)2 9850 8955 Sydney, Australia 2109 fax: +61 (0)2 9850 8114 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
