Package: tetex-bin
Version: 3.0-16
Severity: normal
Hello !
I work with a publishing house, and they use dvips to produce postscript
versions of their books.
They did find recently that sometimes, providing a paper size with the -T
option doesn't produce the
exact size asked.
For instance, the option -T17cm,25cm does actually produces something way
closer to -T17.6cm,25cm.
This is coming directly from the following code in texk/dvipsk/output.c
(findpapersize, around line
1000)
for (ps=papsizes; ps; ps = ps->next) {
if (indelta(ps->xsize-hpapersize) &&
indelta(ps->ysize-vpapersize)) {
landscape = 0 ;
break ;
}
}
Commenting out the break does solve the problem. Even though I can understand
that it is comfortable
to specify an approximate paper size and having it automatically stick to the
closest predefined size
available, it is way better to use it's name, and not to mess the things for
people who really need
precise paper size, such as publishers.
Here is what I propose:
* unless this feature has some important reasons to be, could it simply be
removed ? (it wasn't
present, as far as I know, in TeTex 2 series)
* in any other case, would it be possible to provide a switch to turn it on
or off at will ?
Thanks for considering this report !
Vincent Fourmond
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