I recognize this but have never had the time to go deeper to the problem.
However I once experienced about the same thing when I converted figures
from eps to pdf (not full documents). Then I found out that epstopdf
looks at the eps figure and tries to rotate it such that most of the text
is oriented correctly.
The solution I found was that the option
-dAutoRotatePages=/None
is needed as argument to gs (ghostscript) for it not to correct rotation.
Actually I copied epstopdf and changed a few lines to get it to do that by
default.
If you are interested I can send the corected version to you.
I think this is the reason for your problem. Especially if your figures
are in eps. Then xdvi shows the eps files as are and then when you run
pdflatex lyx has to convert the figures to pdf (using epstopdf) so that
pdflatex can handle them.
That is ofcourse in the case you use pdflatex and not ps2pdf when making
the documents.
Hope this can help you.
/johan
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
> This is something completely new. A figure float in my book displays
> properly in the dvi output. But, when I produced a pdf file using pdflatex
> this figure is rotated 90 degrees! How strange.
>
> Has anyone ever experienced this before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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