Bug 262274 – app-text/pdfjam: pdfjoin fails for PDF-files containing pages with different orientation

• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Erik 2009-03-12 15:23:42 UTC]

pdfjoin fails for PDF-files containing pages with different orientation. Look at the attached file document_with_different_orientations.pdf in kpdf. The first page is portrait and the second page is landscape.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. LANG="" pdfjoin document_with_different_orientations.pdf
2. kpdf document_with_different_orientations-joined.pdf


Actual Results:  
Both pages are portrait.

Expected Results:  
document_with_different_orientations-joined.pdf is identical to document_with_different_orientations.pdf.

[Comment 1 Erik 2009-03-12 15:27:17 UTC]

Created attachment 184815 [details]
document for reproducing the bug

> equery b $(which pdfjoin)
[ Searching for file(s) /usr/bin/pdfjoin in *... ]
app-text/pdfjam-1.20-r1 (/usr/bin/pdfjoin)

[Comment 2 Erik 2009-03-14 13:05:32 UTC]

Here is a workaround:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=document_with_different_orientations-joined.pdf -dBATCH document_with_different_orientations.pdf

[Comment 3 Jonas Stein 2015-10-04 13:17:08 UTC]

This bug seems to be rather an upstream bug. If it is not fixed in the latest version, please report it to the programmers of pdfjam.
I suggest to close it.