The customer reports and I've verified thst starting with r7999 the behavior of Ghostscript has changed in regards to page size. Previously the command line below would cause ghostscript to generate a page that matched the document, now it doesn't (see old.png and new.png, attached, to see the old vs. new output, in reduced form). The command line the customer is using: bin/gs -P- -sDEVICE=pcx24b -dBufferSpace=256000000 - r600x600 -g14034x19866 -dFIXEDMEDIA - sOutputFile=test.pcx -dMaxBitmap=1000000 ./580012_H10- F121_20080609150811.pdf
Created attachment 4140 [details] 580012_H10-F121_20080609150811.pdf
Created attachment 4141 [details] old.png
Created attachment 4142 [details] new.png
Changing the priority to P1 since this is an important issue for the customer and is a regression.
First, the same effects can be easily reproduced on the screen with the following command line. -g implies -dFIXEDMEDIA . gs -r36 -g842x1192 foo.pdf Second, I'd rather call the observed effect a progression, not regression. -g option sets the fixed portrait format and the landscape job get cropped. Ghostscript does exactly what it was asked to do. The question is what the user is trying to achieve and how it can be done using other options. For instance, what's wrong with omitting -g14034x19866 -dFIXEDMEDIA ? If the user need auto-rotation and working media matching policies Ghostscript can be configured as a sheet media device.
Ray, Marcos, please contact the customer and figure out what the customer really need.
I think that the current media handling is correct but we need to help the customer to solve his problem using the current Ghostscript. But first, we need to figure out what the customer needs.
Assigning to Marcos to contact the customer.
Alex is in contact with the customer, so I'm closing this.