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

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

Hi,

On 27.07.05, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
> > 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...

Sure.

> > 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.

Ok. Lets keep it while we know that there is a problem in gv
displaying those files. I've written a bug report to the gv
maintainer.


André

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