this could be a bug!?

[K. Posern]

Hi.

Cause this could be a bug and cause the authors email address was unavailable
(see below) I forward my request to this email address.

Hope this is o.k.



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Subject: i am puzzled with a2ps!!!
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Hi.

I am STUCK with a2ps... and near to throw it all away ;-)

But ... as always there will be an easy solution for the problem I have ...

... the only misserable thing: I DONT SEE THE SOLUTION :-)

O.k. ... about my problem:

I use a2ps on a debian unstable installation.

dpkg -l|grep a2ps
ii  a2ps           4.13b-16       GNU a2ps 'Anything to PostScript' converter 

I type the following:

a2ps --verbose --debug --pages=1 --columns=1 --rows=1 --portrait 
--chars-per-line=80 --major=rows 4_OSA.pdf -o bla_portrait.ps

AND

a2ps --pages=1 --columns=1 --rows=1 --landscape --chars-per-line=80 
--major=rows 4_OSA.pdf -o bla_landscape.ps

BUT IF I make a DIFF on the files I get the following:

diff bla_portrait.ps bla_landscape.ps 
7c7
< %%CreationDate: 2002/12/11 11:58:34
---
> %%CreationDate: 2002/12/11 11:57:06

WHY??? 

I mean I want to TURN these pages! - but it doesn't

I am beginning to run out of paper cause the lots of tries... ;-)


Before the things above I already tried the following:


If I type:

a2ps -1 -a 1 -R 4_OSA.pdf

I get the thing I expect to get:
________________________
| Now everything can   |
| be read cause there  |
| is only one page in  |
| landsacpe format on  |
| a landscape page.    |
------------------------


BUT if I type one of the following:

a2ps -2r -a 1 4_OSA.pdf
a2ps -2R -a 1 4_OSA.pdf
a2ps -2 -a 1 4_OSA.pdf
a2ps -2 -a 1 -r 4_OSA.pdf
a2ps -2 -a 1 -R 4_OSA.pdf
a2ps -a1 -2r 4_OSA.pdf
a2ps -a1 -2R 4_OSA.pdf

Which ALL gave me the SAME output(!):

________________________
|          |           |
| Here is  |           |
| text in  |           |
| this dir |           |
| ection!! |           |
------------------------

But the problem is, that the text which is printed on the left side is BROADER 
than the half of the page thus a part of the page is NOT printed!
Thats because the Text is in landscape format!

So I would LIKE to have something like:

________________________
| Now everything can   |
| be read cause there  |
| is only one page in  |
| landsacpe format on  |
| a landscape page.    |
------------------------
|                      |
|                      |
|                      |
|                      |
|                      |
------------------------


For any answer / help or HINT WHO could help me I be VERY grateful!!

Cause this is a kind of old problem for me and I didnt get
it solved yet (only with using fineprint on windows or something like
this...).

If you need the file 4_OSA.pdf - or any other further information:

Just tell me!


Greetings,

Knuth Posern.

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