Bug 41867

Summary:	pdfinfo does not report page rotation
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Vitaliy Filippov <vitalif>
Component:	utils	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Patch for pdfinfo to report rotated page size Shows page rotation in addition to page size

Description Vitaliy Filippov 2011-10-17 04:11:24 UTC

Hello! I have the following problem with pdfinfo: it shows page size, but doesn't show page rotation.
The reported width/height is same for portrait/landscape images, although they render correctly. But you cannot use width/height reported by pdfinfo, because they may be swapped due to rotation.
There are several discussions of this on the web, for example, http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=485453 even contains simple perl script to extract page rotation.

Comment 1 Vitaliy Filippov 2011-10-20 03:52:23 UTC

Created attachment 52578 [details] [review]
Patch for pdfinfo to report rotated page size

Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2011-10-20 06:10:03 UTC

Personally I would prefer if you added a new field "Page Rotation:". I know it will probably make life a bit harder for you but i prefer if we do not modify existing behaviour of a tool

Comment 3 Vittal Aithal 2011-11-09 10:07:56 UTC

Created attachment 53336 [details] [review]
Shows page rotation in addition to page size

I agree that changing existing behaviour could cause all kinds of problems for people. Adding page rotation as another output field is preferable.

e.g.

Page    1 size: 595 x 842 pts (A4)
Page    1 rot:  90
Page    2 size: 595 x 842 pts (A4)
Page    2 rot:  90


Regards
Vittal Aithal
Cognidox Ltd

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2011-11-09 11:11:16 UTC

Commited, will be in poppler 0.20

Comment 5 Vitaliy Filippov 2011-11-12 13:29:38 UTC

Thanks for the fix!
I agree with you that showing page rotation is far more compatible than changing output. :)

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