When running pdftocairo with -paperw and -paperh arguments, these dimensioners are swapped when a PDF in landscape is given as input file. Thus, width becomes height and height becomes width. This behavior seems strange, as -W and -H arguments passed when cropping a PDF in landscape mode are not swapped. I suggest consistent behavior where -paperw and -paperh denote the width and height of the output file, respectively (and not vice versa). This change was made in poppler-0.38.
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