[PyX-devel] Re: [PyX-checkins] pyx CHANGES,1.388,1.389

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

On 27.07.05, André Wobst wrote:
>   - writer modules:
>     - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
>       even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)

I've just checked a change to not write bbox information in PS and PDF
documents anymore when a paperformat is given (as it was requested by
some folks). At the same time we do not have a default paperformat
setting default as we introduced it in PyX 0.8 by accident.

Unfortunately there is a bad behaviour in this new version, that a PDF
file created with PyX, centered on a page (i.e. no paperformat given)
is clipped in ghostview to positive coordinates. It seems a bug in the
ghostview/ghostscript communication, since ghostscript does it
properly (it takes into account the negative MediaBox information,
which is not declared invalid in the PDF spec.). To get the old
behaviour, which works with ghostscript you have to specify a
paperformat and enable the writebbox option. Is this a reasonable
approach or should we discuss this again before 0.8.1 release?


André

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