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

[Joerg L. <jo...@us...>]

Hi André!

On 27.07.05, Andre Wobst wrote:
> 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.

You probably mean gv - I would be surprise if you still had installed
ghostview...

> 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?

It works with acroread, xpdf, kpdf, ghostscript, so I wouldn't be too
concerned about that. Maybe one should report that bug though.

        Jörg