Bug 687330

Summary: Wrong Orientation after convert from PDF to PCL
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: Elmar Todt <todt.elmar>
Component: Printer DriverAssignee: Ray Johnston <ray.johnston>
Status: NOTIFIED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 8.11   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 2000   
Customer: Word Size: ---
Attachments: Example of a landscape PDF.

Description Elmar Todt 2004-02-29 12:19:11 UTC 
Hello,
i have a problem to convert a pdf-document in a pcl-file.
I use following commandline:
gswin32 -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=filename.pcl filename.pdf

After the converting A4 landscape PDF´s to PCL, the PCL format is A3 and 
portrait. Not A4 landscape, like the original PDF-File!
Why?
Comment 1 Jack Moffitt 2004-03-03 08:43:50 UTC 
Please attach a sample file if you would like us to investigate this report.
Comment 2 Elmar Todt 2004-03-04 00:12:42 UTC 
Created attachment 527 [details]
Example of a landscape PDF.
Comment 3 Elmar Todt 2004-03-04 00:16:39 UTC 
Sorry, the pageformat after converting is not A3 portrait rather A4 portrait!
Comment 4 Ray Johnston 2004-03-17 07:46:50 UTC 
This is a duplicate of bug 629335 which was recently fixed.

The problem is that Ghostscript has a special InputAttributes entry
for a PageSize that fits ANY page size without rotation. This is
a four element array (rather than the standard two element PageSize
array) that represents a range.

When generating data for a particular printer, what should really
be done is to set up an InputAttributes dictionary for the page
sizes that the printer actually supports, but now that all the
standard page sizes are pre-defined in the InputAttributes dict,
it may be enough to just operate without the 'range' type PageSize.

I provided a patch to add a -dNORANGEPAGESIZE option (following)
that prevents the default InputAttributes from including the range
PageSize entry. This should resolve the issue.

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diff -c -r1.20 gs_setpd.ps
*** lib/gs_setpd.ps     17 Dec 2003 09:12:03 -0000      1.20
--- lib/gs_setpd.ps     18 Feb 2004 16:22:37 -0000
***************
*** 200,210 ****
        % see note above about pagetype executable array contents.
        load dup 0 get exch 1 get 2 array astore .dicttomark
      } forall
!     % Add one last entry which is the 4 element range array (non-standard)
!     counttomark 2 idiv
        % PageSize with either dimension 0 will be detected in
        % match_page_size, so we can allow it here
!     mark /PageSize [0 dup 16#7ffff dup] .dicttomark
      .dicttomark
    }
    (%MediaSource) 0
--- 200,214 ----
        % see note above about pagetype executable array contents.
        load dup 0 get exch 1 get 2 array astore .dicttomark
      } forall
!     % If NORANGEPAGESIZE is defined, (-dNORANGEPAGESIZE), then don't add
!     % the 'match any' PageSize entry
!     systemdict /NORANGEPAGESIZE known not {
!       % Add one last entry which is the 4 element range array (non-standard)
!       counttomark 2 idiv
        % PageSize with either dimension 0 will be detected in
        % match_page_size, so we can allow it here
!       mark /PageSize [0 dup 16#7ffff dup] .dicttomark
!     } if
      .dicttomark
    }
    (%MediaSource) 0
Comment 5 Elmar Todt 2004-03-19 01:35:18 UTC 
Thanx for the patch.
It runs...