Footers cut off in ps file

Footers cut off in ps file

[Rodolfo Medina]

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Hi all.

I've been forming, for years, ps files from Emacs with `M-x
pr-ps-buffer-preview' and `M-x pr-ps-buffer-print' without problems.  But now,
in my brand new Debian system, when I do that, the page numbers in the ps file
are half cut off.  Besides, footers are also cut off when gv opens up old ps
files created in the above way, even though they're correctly viewed by gv
within my old Debian box.  Here are my settings:

  (setq ps-print-footer t
	ps-print-footer-frame nil
	ps-top-margin 18
	ps-bottom-margin 14
	ps-left-margin 12
	ps-right-margin 0
	ps-print-header nil
	ps-show-n-of-n nil
	ps-print-footer-frame nil
	ps-footer-lines 1
	ps-footer-offset 0
)

Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do something
within Emacs to work it out?  I'm attaching a test ps file, in which the page
number is half cut off.

Help appreciated.

Rodolfo


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Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Dale Snell]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:08:17 +0000, in message 87fv9rzem6.fsf@gmail.com,
Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do
> something within Emacs to work it out?  I'm attaching a test ps file,
> in which the page number is half cut off.
> 
> Help appreciated.
> 
> Rodolfo
> 

Hi Rodolfo,

I viewed your test file here with gv and qpdfview, and the page
number showed up just fine.  Oddly, emacs' doc-view mode and
claws-mail's PS/PDF viewer both cut off the top line ("test").
Possibly due to the fact that the file is A4 size, while my system
(Fedora 21) is set up for US LETTER.

Hope this helps.

--Dale

-- 
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one which cannot be justified on any other grounds."
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Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Rodolfo Medina]

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:08:17 +0000, in message 87fv9rzem6.fsf@gmail.com,
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do
>> something within Emacs to work it out?  I'm attaching a test ps file,
>> in which the page number is half cut off.
>> 
>> Help appreciated.
>> 
>> Rodolfo
>> 
>
> Hi Rodolfo,
>
> I viewed your test file here with gv and qpdfview, and the page
> number showed up just fine.

Yes, in fact it shows up fine also in my old Debian box.  Then what might the
problem be?  Possibily a bug in latest gv Debian version?

Thanks,

Rodolfo

Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Dale Snell]

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:04:29 +0000, in message 87k2z39tgi.fsf@gmail.com,
Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:08:17 +0000, in message
> > 87fv9rzem6.fsf@gmail.com, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >
> >> Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do
> >> something within Emacs to work it out?  I'm attaching a test ps
> >> file, in which the page number is half cut off.
> >> 
> >> Help appreciated.
> >> 
> >> Rodolfo
> >> 
> >
> > Hi Rodolfo,
> >
> > I viewed your test file here with gv and qpdfview, and the page
> > number showed up just fine.
> 
> Yes, in fact it shows up fine also in my old Debian box.  Then what
> might the problem be?  Possibily a bug in latest gv Debian version?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rodolfo

Possibly, possibly, though I'd be more likely to suspect something
in your configuration, rather than a bug in qv.  FWIW, I'm using
gv v3.7.4.

Have you tried any other PS/PDF viewers?  If they work, then it's
quite possible there's a bug in your version of qv.  So far I've
tried gv, qpdfview, zathura, Emacs (v24.4.1) doc-view mode, and
Claws-Mail's PS/PDF viewer plug-in.  The only ones that don't show
the entire document are the Claws-Mail viewer and, oddly enough,
Emacs' doc-view mode.  In both cases, the page number shows up,
but the word "test" at the top of the page is missing.  I've no
idea what's causing this.  Possibly because I'm running in a US
LETTER environment?  I don't know.

Given that your old Debian box works while your new one doesn't,
I'd go through the two of them with a fine-toothed comb.  Find out
where things are different.  The answer to your troubles should be
there somewhere.

Out of curiosity, what does the papersize(5) command show for your
system?  It's possible that your system is defaulting to LETTER
instead of A4, though that seems quite unlikely.  I ask because I
had trouble printing from a SuSE system.  It turned out that the
system default was A4, which I hadn't expected.  I set the default
to LETTER, and all was well.

I don't know how much more help I can be, I'm afraid.  I don't
know much about PostScript, or how Emacs handles it, so I'm really
shooting in the dark.  To complicate matters further, I'm running
Fedora, rather than Debian.  They're just different enough to
cause confusion.  To quote Dr. Seaton, "Ideas are avoiding me in
droves."

--Dale

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Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Rodolfo Medina]

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:04:29 +0000, in message 87k2z39tgi.fsf@gmail.com,
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
>> 
>> > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:08:17 +0000, in message
>> > 87fv9rzem6.fsf@gmail.com, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>> >
>> >> Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do
>> >> something within Emacs to work it out?  I'm attaching a test ps
>> >> file, in which the page number is half cut off.
>> >> 
>> >> Help appreciated.
>> >> 
>> >> Rodolfo
>> >> 
>> >
>> > Hi Rodolfo,
>> >
>> > I viewed your test file here with gv and qpdfview, and the page
>> > number showed up just fine.
>> 
>> Yes, in fact it shows up fine also in my old Debian box.  Then what
>> might the problem be?  Possibily a bug in latest gv Debian version?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Rodolfo
>
> Possibly, possibly, though I'd be more likely to suspect something
> in your configuration, rather than a bug in qv.  FWIW, I'm using
> gv v3.7.4.

My version is the same.


> Have you tried any other PS/PDF viewers?  If they work, then it's
> quite possible there's a bug in your version of qv.  So far I've
> tried gv, qpdfview, zathura, Emacs (v24.4.1) doc-view mode, and
> Claws-Mail's PS/PDF viewer plug-in.

I have Emacs 25.0.50.1, and the problem persists also in its doc-view.


> The only ones that don't show
> the entire document are the Claws-Mail viewer and, oddly enough,
> Emacs' doc-view mode.  In both cases, the page number shows up,
> but the word "test" at the top of the page is missing.  I've no
> idea what's causing this.  Possibly because I'm running in a US
> LETTER environment?  I don't know.
>
> Given that your old Debian box works while your new one doesn't,
> I'd go through the two of them with a fine-toothed comb.  Find out
> where things are different.  The answer to your troubles should be
> there somewhere.

Same the file, different the show.


> Out of curiosity, what does the papersize(5) command show for your
> system?  It's possible that your system is defaulting to LETTER
> instead of A4, though that seems quite unlikely.  I ask because I
> had trouble printing from a SuSE system.  It turned out that the
> system default was A4, which I hadn't expected.  I set the default
> to LETTER, and all was well.

I don't have that command: `papersize' on my system.

> I don't know how much more help I can be, I'm afraid.  I don't
> know much about PostScript, or how Emacs handles it, so I'm really
> shooting in the dark.  To complicate matters further, I'm running
> Fedora, rather than Debian.  They're just different enough to
> cause confusion.  To quote Dr. Seaton, "Ideas are avoiding me in
> droves."
>
> --Dale

Thanks!

Rodolfo

Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Dale Snell]

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On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:09:22 +0000, in message 871tla4d31.fsf@gmail.com,
Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
> 
> > Out of curiosity, what does the papersize(5) command show for your
> > system?  It's possible that your system is defaulting to LETTER
> > instead of A4, though that seems quite unlikely.  I ask because I
> > had trouble printing from a SuSE system.  It turned out that the
> > system default was A4, which I hadn't expected.  I set the default
> > to LETTER, and all was well.
> 
> I don't have that command: `papersize' on my system.

ACK!  My apologies; I confused the man pages for the command and
the file.  papersize(5) is about the file /etc/papersize;
paperconf(1) is the command that reads and writes it.  You should
have it; it appears to have been written for Debian.

I still think the key to finding the source of this problem is in
your two Debian systems.  In one, the file displays correctly; in
the other, it doesn't.  Find out where they differ for displaying
PostScript; that's where your problem is most likely to be.

--Dale

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Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Rodolfo Medina]

Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:

> On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 09:09:22 +0000, in message 871tla4d31.fsf@gmail.com,
> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Dale Snell <ddsnell@frontier.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Out of curiosity, what does the papersize(5) command show for your
>> > system?  It's possible that your system is defaulting to LETTER
>> > instead of A4, though that seems quite unlikely.  I ask because I
>> > had trouble printing from a SuSE system.  It turned out that the
>> > system default was A4, which I hadn't expected.  I set the default
>> > to LETTER, and all was well.
>> 
>> I don't have that command: `papersize' on my system.
>
> ACK!  My apologies; I confused the man pages for the command and
> the file.  papersize(5) is about the file /etc/papersize;
> paperconf(1) is the command that reads and writes it.  You should
> have it; it appears to have been written for Debian.

paperconf confirms that on my Debian system - both the brand new one and the
old one - a4 is the default paper format.


> I still think the key to finding the source of this problem is in
> your two Debian systems.  In one, the file displays correctly; in
> the other, it doesn't.  Find out where they differ for displaying
> PostScript; that's where your problem is most likely to be.


Well, in one there is gv 3.7.4 and page numbers are cut; in the other there is
gv 3.6.5 and the ps file is perfectly displayed.  On the other hand, your gv
3.7.4 also shows it up fine, so it could maybe be a problem of Emacs (my new
version is 25.0.50.1) or of Debian.  But the Debian list didn't help, so I
don't know how to work it out.  It's really annoying.

Thanks,

Rodolfo

Re: Footers cut off in ps file

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
() Sat, 28 Feb 2015 16:08:01 +0000

   Well, in one there is gv 3.7.4 and page numbers are cut; in
   the other there is gv 3.6.5 and the ps file is perfectly
   displayed.  On the other hand, your gv 3.7.4 also shows it up
   fine, so it could maybe be a problem of Emacs (my new version
   is 25.0.50.1) or of Debian.  But the Debian list didn't help,
   so I don't know how to work it out.  It's really annoying.

Maybe some setting in the environment is the cause of the
weirdness.  What does gv(1) (the manpage) say re environment?

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ps-print cuts off footers (was: Footers cut off in ps file)

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> I've been forming, for years, ps files from Emacs with `M-x
> pr-ps-buffer-preview' and `M-x pr-ps-buffer-print' without problems.  But
> now, in my brand new Debian system, when I do that, the page numbers in the
> ps file are half cut off.

I have Emacs 25.0.50.1 downloaded and built from git repositories.


Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

> Maybe some setting in the environment is the cause of the weirdness.


How can I check that?

Thanks,

Rodolfo

Re: ps-print cuts off footers

[Rodolfo Medina]

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Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> I've been forming, for years, ps files from Emacs with `M-x
>> pr-ps-buffer-preview' and `M-x pr-ps-buffer-print' without problems.  But
>> now, in my brand new Debian system, when I do that, the page numbers in the
>> ps file are half cut off.
>
> I have Emacs 25.0.50.1 downloaded and built from git repositories.
>
>
> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Maybe some setting in the environment is the cause of the weirdness.
>
>
> How can I check that?

I'm attaching a test file that shows the problem.

Thanks,

Rodolfo


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Re: ps-print cuts off footers

[Robert Thorpe]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> [1:text/plain Hide]
>
> Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>>> I've been forming, for years, ps files from Emacs with `M-x
>>> pr-ps-buffer-preview' and `M-x pr-ps-buffer-print' without problems.  But
>>> now, in my brand new Debian system, when I do that, the page numbers in the
>>> ps file are half cut off.
>>
>> I have Emacs 25.0.50.1 downloaded and built from git repositories.

It could be that you have contradictory paper-size variables.

I ran into a similar problem with the utility "ps2pdf" the other day.
The postscript file I'd generated was in A4 but ps2pdf turned it into a
US-letter size pdf.  The solution in that case was to add the switch
-sPAPERSIZE=a4.

What I'd suggest is:
* Try writing a PS file out using C-u M-x pr-ps-buffer-print.
* Check that the file is the paper size you expect.  Try a couple of
viewers.
* Try using C-u M-x ps-print-buffer instead.

If not the paper sizes are wrong then that could be a system setup
issue.  You can probably fix it by adding a switch somewhere or
redefining and environmental variable, though I don't know which one.

BR,
Rob

Re: ps-print cuts off footers

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
() Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:37:40 +0000

   > Maybe some setting in the environment is the cause of the
   > weirdness.

   How can I check that?

I don't know.  It was idle speculation.  Since then, i have
looked at stampa.ps as converted to a PNG via:

 gm convert stampa.ps stampa.png

and i see that the "half" that is cut off from the footer is the
*upper* half!  The footer text is clipped by the footer frame.
So that excludes incorrect bounding box problems (due perhaps to
improper paper size specification) in my mental model.  Also
supporting the theory that the paper size is indeed correctly
specified are the stampa.ps lines:

 %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
 %%PageMedia: A4

(where "A4" appears).  Thus, there must be something else going
on; paper size is a red herring...

Since i don't even have gv installed on this computer, it looks
like gv cannot be at fault, either.

So, the only thing left is the postscript itself must be wrong.
I see that in: 

 (setq ps-print-footer t
       ps-print-footer-frame nil
       ps-top-margin 18
       ps-bottom-margin 14
       ps-left-margin 12
       ps-right-margin 0
       ps-print-header nil
       ps-show-n-of-n nil
       ps-print-footer-frame nil
       ps-footer-lines 1
       ps-footer-offset 0)

the var ‘ps-print-footer-frame’ is set to nil (twice!), yet
stampa.ps line 217 obstinately reads:

 /PrintFooterFrame   true def

If you manually change the "true" to "false", then there is no
footer frame and thus there is no footer frame clipping.  So the
bug lies in the failure of the Emacs Lisp code to propagate the
Emacs Lisp variable ‘ps-print-footer-frame’ to the postscript
definition of ‘PrintFooterFrame’.  Or you could say, "one bug".
Maybe there are others.

But before you file a bug report, are you very sure that you
evaluated the ‘(setq ...)’ form *before* generating stampa.ps?

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Re: ps-print cuts off footers

[Rodolfo Medina]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> writes:

> () Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
> () Tue, 03 Mar 2015 10:37:40 +0000
>
>    > Maybe some setting in the environment is the cause of the
>    > weirdness.
>
>    How can I check that?
>
> I don't know.  It was idle speculation.  Since then, i have
> looked at stampa.ps as converted to a PNG via:
>
>  gm convert stampa.ps stampa.png
>
> and i see that the "half" that is cut off from the footer is the
> *upper* half!  The footer text is clipped by the footer frame.
> So that excludes incorrect bounding box problems (due perhaps to
> improper paper size specification) in my mental model.  Also
> supporting the theory that the paper size is indeed correctly
> specified are the stampa.ps lines:
>
>  %%DocumentMedia: A4 595 842 0 () ()
>  %%PageMedia: A4
>
> (where "A4" appears).  Thus, there must be something else going
> on; paper size is a red herring...

Yes...


> Since i don't even have gv installed on this computer, it looks
> like gv cannot be at fault, either.

So it is.


> So, the only thing left is the postscript itself must be wrong.
> I see that in: 
>
>  (setq ps-print-footer t
>        ps-print-footer-frame nil
>        ps-top-margin 18
>        ps-bottom-margin 14
>        ps-left-margin 12
>        ps-right-margin 0
>        ps-print-header nil
>        ps-show-n-of-n nil
>        ps-print-footer-frame nil
>        ps-footer-lines 1
>        ps-footer-offset 0)
>
> the var ‘ps-print-footer-frame’ is set to nil (twice!), yet
> stampa.ps line 217 obstinately reads:
>
>  /PrintFooterFrame   true def
>
> If you manually change the "true" to "false", then there is no
> footer frame and thus there is no footer frame clipping.  So the
> bug lies in the failure of the Emacs Lisp code to propagate the
> Emacs Lisp variable ‘ps-print-footer-frame’ to the postscript
> definition of ‘PrintFooterFrame’.  Or you could say, "one bug".
> Maybe there are others.
>
> But before you file a bug report, are you very sure that you
> evaluated the ‘(setq ...)’ form *before* generating stampa.ps?


Many thanks for your help.  But no, there's a misunderstanding, my fault.  The
above settings are not the ones used for stampa.ps.  Instead, stampa.ps had the
only setting:

 (setq ps-print-footer t)

and nothing else.  Besides, the footer is cut off - its upper half, exactly -
*also without* footer frame, i.e. with footer frame set to `nil'.

It's really a problem because I've always been largely using Emacs and ps-print
package.  Also from gv mailing list it seems to turn out the ps file to be
incorrect.  It is generated by ps-print, from whose maintainer I didn't yet get
a reply to my message.  I really don't know what to do.  What do you suggest?

Thanks indeed,

Rodolfo

Re: ps-print cuts off footers

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

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() Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>
() Wed, 04 Mar 2015 15:50:57 +0000

   a misunderstanding, my fault.

Well, let's share the fault, then we can share the (eventual)
glory of resolving the problem.  :-D

   The above settings are not the ones used for stampa.ps.
   Instead, stampa.ps had the only setting:

    (setq ps-print-footer t)

   and nothing else.  Besides, the footer is cut off - its upper
   half, exactly - *also without* footer frame, i.e. with footer
   frame set to `nil'.

   It's really a problem because I've always been largely using
   Emacs and ps-print package.  Also from gv mailing list it
   seems to turn out the ps file to be incorrect.  It is
   generated by ps-print, from whose maintainer I didn't yet get
   a reply to my message.  I really don't know what to do.  What
   do you suggest?

OK, i see in the original stampa.ps (at the top of the thread),
line 217 does indeed read:

 /PrintFooterFrame   false def

so that was a false alarm.  Since clipping is the immediate
manifestation, one workaround is to disable clipping.  You can
do that by the definition of ‘FooterText’ (line 1070) to:

 /FooterText{
   %gsave FooterClip
   FooterLinesRight FooterLinesLeft
   /FooterStart FooterLineHeight FooterPad
   FooterFrameProperties 0 get
   HeaderOrFooterText
   %grestore
 }def

(We just comment out ‘gsave FooterClip’ and ‘grestore’.)
For me, that change allows the full page number to show.
Here is a small sed script that you can use to automake the
workaround while you resolve things w/ the Author:

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Save to file noclip.sed and run it like so:

 $ sed -f noclip.sed stampa.ps > stampa-noclip.ps

I suspect the root cause is an OBOE in the calculation of the
‘FooterHeight’ but that again(!) is idle speculation...  i'll
bow out of this thread now, but hope to see you post the nitty
gritty debugging and resolution findings, "infuturo".  :-D

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Re: ps-print cuts off footers

[Robert Thorpe]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:
> It's really a problem because I've always been largely using Emacs and ps-print
> package.  Also from gv mailing list it seems to turn out the ps file to be
> incorrect.  It is generated by ps-print, from whose maintainer I didn't yet get
> a reply to my message.  I really don't know what to do.  What do you suggest?

If the PS file is incorrect then you should file a bug against Emacs
with M-x report-emacs-bug.

BR,
Robert Thorpe

[solved] Re: Footers cut off in ps-print files

[Rodolfo Medina]

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> I've been forming, for years, ps files from Emacs with `M-x
> pr-ps-buffer-preview' and `M-x pr-ps-buffer-print' without problems.  But
> now, in my brand new Debian system, when I do that, the page numbers in the
> ps file are half cut off.  Besides, footers are also cut off when gv opens up
> old ps files created in the above way, even though they're correctly viewed
> by gv within my old Debian box.  Here are my settings:
>
>   (setq ps-print-footer t
> 	ps-print-footer-frame nil
> 	ps-top-margin 18
> 	ps-bottom-margin 14
> 	ps-left-margin 12
> 	ps-right-margin 0
> 	ps-print-header nil
> 	ps-show-n-of-n nil
> 	ps-footer-lines 1
> 	ps-footer-offset 0
> )
>
> Do you think the problem concerns only gv and Debian, or can I do something
> within Emacs to work it out?  I'm attaching a test ps file, in which the page
> number is half cut off.


The problem was worked out just adding to my ps-print settings the following
option:

	ps-footer-font-family 'Times

, so it was certainly related to the default footer font family that should be,
I think, Helvetica.  So there must be a global problem in my system (Debian
Sid) with that font, although I don't know what and would be curious to know.
It is so also explained why the problem arised as well with old ps-print files
and, as well, when simply using ps2pdf to convert them to pdf format.

Thanks to anyone that helped.

Rodolfo