Bernhard R. Link <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> retitle 130802 gri: landscape produces interdependent pages
> reassign 130802 gri 2.12.13-1
> thanks
> 
> * Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070717 11:55]:
> > When viewing certains postscripts file in gv, pressing the 'redisplay'
> > button redraws the page in rotated 90 degrees.  If you can't reproduce
> > this, I'll try to make a small postscript file to reproduce the problem.
> 
> I've come to the opinion that this is a bug in gri, and not in gv.
> 
> 1) If I copy everything from %%Page: 1 1 up to %%Page: 2 2, and renumber
>    the pages accordingly, and view the result in gs, the second page
>    is rotated like gv displays the first one uppon redisplay.
>    This means there is an error in the postscript file, as DSC marked
>    pages are supposed to be independent, which this one is clearly not.
> 
> 2) If I disable "Respect DSC" in State->gv options, I get no rotation
>    effect uppon redisplay.
> 
> 3) the file gri produces (I've checked 2.12.13-1 still does this)
>    does some rotating, but does not save the graphic state.
>    Without gsave and grestore around the page, it is easy to not
>    have the same state after the page as before (so ending up with
>    disallowed dependant pages), so I'm guessing this is the culprit.
>    (Especially as grep rotate on the old and the new ps file show
>     three times rotate by 90 and one time by -90...)
> 
> Hochachtungsvoll,
>       Bernhard R. Link

Thanks Bernhard!

Dan,  if you get the change to look into this sometime, the bug is:

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=130802

and the PostScript file example is at

 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=39;filename=bug130802.ps.gz;att=1;bug=130802

Thanks!

Peter


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