[tex-live] PDF files cut off using a0poster with current texlive 2009 pretest

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:13:15PM +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

> 2009/8/4 John Minter <jrminter at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks to both of you for your thoughts to date. The problem is not
> > fonts but getting the page properly sized in the PDF. The poster is in
> > landscape mode and is properly rendered in the postscript file, but
> > the PDF seems to get the dimensions swapped and is in portrait mode
> > with the content cut off at the right border. It worked OK in TL 2009
> > a couple of days ago but fails now on linux x86_64. Win32, and MacOSX.
> >
> > Note that dvips and ps2pdf don't complain...
> >
> I think you should specify the proper size with -t option when calling
> dvips. Alternatively you can use \special{papersize=...} in your
> document and then use -t unknown with dvips.

He uses \special{papersize=...} *and* sets the page dimensions
using a0header.ps:
    %%BeginFeature *PageSize ISOA0/ISO A0
    2 dict dup /PageSize [2594 3370] put dup /ImagingBBox null put
    setpagedevice
    %%EndFeature

At least
  dvips -t unknown -Ppdf poster
seems to work. Now both the .ps file and the .pdf file can be read
entirely.

BTW:
* bibTeX complains:
    This is BibTeX, Version 0.99c (TeX Live 2009)
    The top-level auxiliary file: poster.aux
    The style file: alpha.bst
    Illegal, another \bibstyle command---line 7 of file poster.aux
     : \bibstyle
     :          {alpha}
    I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
    Illegal, another \bibdata command---line 8 of file poster.aux
     : \bibdata
     :         {poster.bib}
    I'm skipping whatever remains of this command
    Database file #1: poster.bib.bib
    (There were 2 error messages)

And there are LaTeX warnings:

    LaTeX Warning: Label `Aut2001' multiply defined.
    LaTeX Warning: Label `eqn:first' multiply defined.
    LaTeX Warning: There were multiply-defined labels.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>