I have a pdf file that has been created by Adobe Indesign.
After this I open this file in Preview and rotate some pages highlight some tet and add an annotation (a speech bubble) and saved it again. File: http://public.pixelhobby.com.s3.amazonaws.com/indesign-portrait-example.pdf
I want to create a postscript file, with the following command
cupsfilter -i "application/pdf" -m "application/vnd.cups-postscript" -f /Volumes/TEMPORARY/test-files/booklet_A4doc_A3-plus_paper_A4booklet/pdf/indesign-portrait-example.pdf > indesign-portrait-example.ps
The result is file: http://public.pixelhobby.com.s3.amazonaws.com/indesign-portrait-example.ps
As you can see, the page rotations, highlights and annotations are not honoured when creating a postscript file.
I think this issue is the cause of my problem when I'm trying to use the TwoUp feature (for a booklet) of my EFI Fiery driver of my Canon IPC-650 printer, and the page rotation and annotations are not printed in the booklet. When I do a normal print job, the rotations and annotations are visible and honoured.
I presume the cups postscript filter is used when printing, but only in those cases where a pages need to be newly imposed, but I'm not sure how this actually works.
This is not a Preview issue, I tried other tools to rotate the pages and still the same problem occured. The rotation flag can easily be discovered when using the following command:
pdfinfo -l 8 indesign-portrait-example.pdf
you will get:
Creator: Adobe InDesign 15.0 (Macintosh)
Producer: Adobe PDF Library 15.0
CreationDate: Tue Oct 13 13:21:36 2020
ModDate: Tue Oct 13 13:21:36 2020
Tagged: no
Form: none
Pages: 8
Encrypted: no
Page 1 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 0 degrees)
Page 2 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 180 degrees)
Page 3 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 0 degrees)
Page 4 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 180 degrees)
Page 5 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 0 degrees)
Page 6 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 180 degrees)
Page 7 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 0 degrees)
Page 8 size: 595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4) (rotated 180 degrees)
File size: 377890 bytes
Optimized: yes
PDF version: 1.5
How to create a postscript file that honours the rotation and annotations made in the pdf?