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2010.08.19 17:18 "tiff2ps page sizing options", by Richard Nolde
All,
I'm revisiting tiff2ps to fix a bug with images that have no
resolution unit tag but do have x and y resolutions. That fix seems to
be only a line or two but while I'm back in the code, I'm trying to
clean up a few things in my patches so they can be resubmitted once more
for inclusion in at least some version of libtiff. The current CVS
version has some of my work from 2005 that allows for additional
rotations of 90 and 270 degrees and page chopping by width as well as
height. However, there are known bugs in it that were fixed in
subsequent patches that never got applied in CVS. I'm trying to
simplify the old code and my patches before making any new submissions.
There are also errors in the current man page that I can address.
I have some questions about how tiff2ps worked originally and/or
should work when multiple options are specified. In particular, there
isn't a clear definition of how the -H, -W, -h -w flags interact when
they are combined. I think that -h and -w define the size of the page on
which the image is presented whereas -H and -W define viewports into the
image that will be output. In other words, -H or -W could be used to
specify that only a portion of the image be displayed on a given output
page, with additional pages created to handle the overflow. To me, this
implies that -H can never be larger than -h, -W can never be larger than
-w.
If -h and -w are specified alone, the entire image is scaled to fit
on that size output media. If -H is also specified, the image is scaled
to the -w value (or native width if no -w is specified) horizontally and
the result clipped to -H in each page that is required. If -W is
specified with -h and -w, the image is scaled to the -h value (or native
height if no -h is specified), and the result clipped to -W in each page
that is required. Yes/No?
If -H or -W are specified without -h and -w, I assume no scaling
should take place, only clipping and generation of multiple pages as
needed.
Any ideas?
Richard Nolde