Hi Albert,
On 29/10/2009, at 7:10 AM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> What do you guys think of
>
> Normalize pages (autorotate landscape pages to portrait)
>
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24774>
> I'm not against it, but i don't want our tools to end up having
> 1500 different
> switches either.
I, for one, am totally against such a mis-feature being made either
default or too easy to select.
PDF is an electronic format; pages do not need to be either the same
size nor the same shape. Even when they are, then working out when
to rotate is a problem that can really only be solved by a person
looking at the page --- unless care has been taken to tag that a page
*should* be viewed at an orientation different to how it was placed
into the PDF.
I've seen examples of pages which a PDF viewer (using auto-rotate)
could not get right. It is very disturbing when preparing slides
for a presentation, and the viewer switches the orientation on you,
due to some kind of heuristics about the content, which are rules
that are either unknown or nearly impossible to work around.
>
> Albert
I've no objection to there being an option which allows a reader
to select auto-rotate for a particular document. But this should
never, ever be the default action.
Hope his helps,
Ross
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