>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>From: Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: problem with XFig figures under PDF >>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:47:39 +0100 >> >>Maciej Kalisiak wrote: [...] >>It all comes down to what converter you use to define the conversion >>from .fig to .pdf. You can probably wrap the native fig2dev call in a >>shell script to also rotate the generated pdf file.
If gs takes care of the conversion, check the version: there were problems (and there must be thread about this in the list). I had them with gs 7.05, which disappeared with current 8.14. Tha landscape/portrait setting in xfig may be important as well. Even if it's grayed when you export to eps or pdf, I always take care to set to portrait, as I think that an individual figure should always be presented as it is (this option does not exist, the portrait/landscape is there for printing purpose, not for graphic component manipulation). The interpretation of landscape orientation in PDF is ambiguous in fact, and I come often across PDF documents which include both formats (exported from documents which allow such thing to happen), which cannot be printed correctly. I think that *visual* documents with alternating portrait and landscape pages are OK, but they *should* be exported in a printable document (or the printing tool *should* understand the situation). Sorry for these OT considerations, HTH -- Jean-Pierre
