Ok, I'm adding my probably useless contribution...
I thought that seminar doses not play very well with pdflatex. How about
using the 'powersem.cls' class and the 'fixseminar.sty' package from the
texpower bundle? Say:
\documentclass[landscape]{powersem}
%%load other packages here...
\usepackage{fixseminar}
Powersem is a wrapper to seminar and fixseminar should be there to fix the
seminar-pdflatex interaction oddities. You can still use the commands from
seminar, I think.
The slides at
http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov/baltimore/talk-tp.pdf
were done this way.
--Ettore
Ettore Aldrovandi
Department of Mathematics - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florida State University - http://www.math.fsu.edu/~ealdrov
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4510, USA - +1 (850) 664-9717 (FAX: 4053)
>From: Vivien Mary Kendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Fink-users] tetex testing needed - landscape pdf problems
>[Two replies in one here: Stefano see below]
>
>On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
>> On lundi, f�v 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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