[Two replies in one here: Stefano see below]
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On lundi, fév 17, 2003, at 14:22 Europe/Paris, Vivien Mary Kendon wrote:
>
> > This probably isn't a problem with the fink side of the tetex
> > distribution, but since we are discussing it, I thought I'd try asking
> > anyway. I can get perfectly good landscape ps output from my latex
> > document, but I can't get landscape pdf output from it.
>
> I think it is not completely out of topic here, because it is an old
> problem, and the possible solutions depend heavily on the precise
> version of tetex installed.
Oh dear, this is clearly a seriously advanced black art.
And I'm only a beginner in it it would seem...
Your method does not work for me. If I replace my preamble with yours and
follow your recipe I get a couple of latex errors (it doesn't like the
a4paper option and mutters about magnification), and end up with a pdf
file containing a couple of blank pages, then my slides start on page 3,
but they are about a6 size, correct orientation, with a black box around
them, sitting in the middle left of an a4 portrait page! (At least, I
trust that isn't what you thought I'd get?!)
If I don't replace my preamble, then your landscape_90.ps does nothing,
I get a portrait page with cropped-on-the-right landscape content.
If I use the file /sw/share/ghostscript/8.0/lib/landscap.ps instead of
yours, I get the contents rotated by 90 degrees so it would fit portrait,
but also offset so the bottom edge is in the middle of a portrait a4 page
and cropped on the top (now right) at the edge of an a4 portrait page.
But I get it in a _landscape_ a4 page so it is also cropped on the right
(now bottom) edge! (But maybe I haven't commented/uncommented the right
things in that landscap.ps file yet...I'll work on it.)
Gawd...anyone else want to pile in?
Ahh, Stefano does:
> From: Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> A way of getting the pdf in landscape format is to use the "geometry"
> package in latex with the landscape option, i.e.
> \usepackage[a4paper,landscape]{geometry}
> Then use your same commands to produce the file Land.ps and then just
> ps2pdf Land.ps. This should give Land.pdf in landscape format.
Nope, didn't for me. Landscape content, portrait pdf page. Viewed in gv
and in Preview.
BUT, just found out part of the problem is with gv viewing pdf: I tried
one of my earlier tests in Preview and it comes out correctly!! (But is
badly cropped and aligned in gv.) Yeah!! Now I have to figure out
_which_ test that was %*| And test in some more viewers...
Thanks for all your suggestions thus far...I'll report back if I can
figure out any pattern to what seems to work and not work after further
testing.
-- Viv
> I have found a method that works for me™, but I don't pretend it is the
> most professional one. Here is what I am doing:
>
> Preamble starts:
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{seminar}
> \paperwidth 219mm \paperheight 312mm
> \slidewidth 264mm \slideheight 170mm
>
> Then I do latex TEXT.tex, and for dvips I use the following:
>
> dvips -o TEXT.ps -h landscape.ps TEXT.dvi
>
> The essential trick is the little file landscape.ps. It lives in
> ~/Library/texmf/dvips/misc/ and is actually a symlink to one of two
> different files depending on which machine I am.
>
> On the machine with Fink's recent tetex, the slides need to be turned
> by 90 degrees, and landscape.ps points to the file landscape_90.ps:
>
> %%%% landscape_90.ps %%%%%
> /_sys_showpage /showpage load def
> /showpage {
> [{ThisPage} <</Rotate 270>> /PUT pdfmark
> _sys_showpage
> }bind def
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> For earlier versions of tetex, the "270" had to be "90", because they
> turned the other way.
>
> On another machine with GW's teTeX, the slides are upside down, and
> landscape.ps points to landscape_180.ps which is the following:
>
> %%%% landscape_180.ps %%%%%
> /bop-hook {
> gsave clippath pathbbox grestore
> 4 dict begin
> /ury exch def /urx exch def /lly exch def /llx exch def
> 180 rotate urx neg lly -2 mul ury sub translate
> end
> } def
> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>
> Then I use ps2pdf without any decorations
>
> ps2pdf13 TEXT.ps
>
> and it works. Don't ask me why :-)
>
> One perpetual problem I am having have with tetex updates (nothing to
> do with landscape slides) is that each time the default voffset
> changes. After almost every update, my text is either 1 inch too high
> or 1 inch too low on the page, and not even the same on different
> machines. I got used to edit the "O" option in the file
> ~/Library/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps every time.
>
> --
> Martin
>
>
>
>
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