Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Tom and Rafael, So far that was the only solution that worked fine for me. pdflatex still have some problems dealing with eps files so that ps2pdf is the only alternative I can use. I consider that the way ps2pdf handles the landscape clause (or better say ignore!) is a bug, and I wonder if this should not be reported as one to gs guys. For the moment, I'm using the following to 'automate' the editing of the ps files (following Rafael): [EMAIL PROTECTED] latex file.tex [EMAIL PROTECTED] dvips -Ppdf -t landscape file.dvi -o file.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] sed s/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ \/PageSize [792 612] \/Orientation 0 setpagedevice/ file.ps | ps2pdf - file.pdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] The above can be embedded into a shell script to handle the file name parameter. For instance: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat myps2pdf #!/bin/sh sed s/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ \/PageSize [792 612] \/Orientation 0 setpagedevice/ $1.ps | ps2pdf - $1.pdf [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that the whole thing would be called as (someone might try to handle the file extension in a better way) [EMAIL PROTECTED] latex file.tex [EMAIL PROTECTED] dvips -Ppdf -t landscape file.dvi -o file.ps [EMAIL PROTECTED] myps2pdf file I'm using dvips 5.86 and gs 6.01. You might need to tune up the regexps until you get the desired result. Hope this help. Mauricio
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Rafael
Nice summary. The only thing is there must be an easier way that
editing the PS file. I will investigate.
Tom
On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, Rafael E. Herrera wrote:
Damn, I had to make a presentation using a laptop and a projector.
I could not use a PDF file because acroread would not show the
document in landscape. From the previous messages the way to convert
the PS to PDF is given by the next example.
Say the latex file is:
\documentclass[semhelv,landscape,12pt]{seminar}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
A darned slide.
\end{slide}
\end{document}
$ latex test.tex
$ dvips -Ppdf -t landscape test.dvi -o test.ps
Edit the postscript with:
Thomas Halahan wrote:
Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the
PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces
%%BeginSetup
%%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
TeXDict begin
@landscape
%%EndSetup
If I modify this to
%%BeginSetup
%%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
TeXDict begin
/PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 setpagedevice
%%EndSetup
After checking http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm we
use the cammand:
$ ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 \
-dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true test.ps test.pdf
$ acroread test.pdf
Now it shows right within acroread! I guess I won't be
needing Corel Office 2000 or StarOffice now :).
--
Rafael
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Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
On 07-Oct-00 Thomas Halahan wrote: Rafael Nice summary. The only thing is there must be an easier way that editing the PS file. I will investigate. Tom I've had the same problem of converting Landscape PS files to PDF so that they can be viewed right way up in Acrobat Reader. The only way I've found is to use the 'pstill' program with the '-R' option: pstill -R90 .. generates a PDF which is rotated clockwise by 90 degrees. For the 'pstill' program, if you don't know it already, see http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html It is not totally straightforward to get this program set up, but once you have it running it does a good job. I don't know of any way to get ps2pdf to rotate the output. Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 284 7749 Date: 07-Oct-00 Time: 17:02:10 -- XFMail --
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
I do this with XFig. Open a new document and import your landscape PS file using the picture tool (the photo camera button). When doing this use any picture size you want. You'll get a dialog where you can browse and pick up the desired file. Just before clicking done click use original size on the bottom left. You now have your PS picture with the original size into the XFig canvas. Select portrait mode from the view menu (or press alt-c) and then export the file (alt-x) to PDF. It works for me. -- Pedro I've had the same problem of converting Landscape PS files to PDF so that they can be viewed right way up in Acrobat Reader. The only way I've found is to use the 'pstill' program with the '-R' option: pstill -R90 .. generates a PDF which is rotated clockwise by 90 degrees. For the 'pstill' program, if you don't know it already, see http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html It is not totally straightforward to get this program set up, but once you have it running it does a good job. I don't know of any way to get ps2pdf to rotate the output. Ted.
RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
I tried this recently. What happened was that ps2pdf gave rubbish looking results. I don't know why this happens, but the quality is far worse than for pdflatex. pdflatex, whilst quality is good, doesn't recofgnise the \specials from fancybox package of pstricks of some such. Therefore the pdflatex semainar presentation comes out without a border and not the right size. If you do find a solution tell me. I saw that one user of seminar recomended VTEX but i could be bothered to learn that. check out http://www.tug.org/applications/Seminar/ AHH.. I have just seen your later post about editing the pd file. Question: Do you find the quality of ps2pdf satisfactory. Are you really projecting this? Perhaps I don't have the right gs fonts or something cos my fonts come out horrid. Any tips. Tom On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, Stephenson, Paul wrote: Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. Just a thought: have you tried generating PDF directly from the LaTeX source with pdflatex? I have no idea whether this will solve your problem, but it might be worth a try. Regards, Paul -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Maybe a better way to do this, rather than edit the ps file is to issue dvips -t landscape filename.dvi -o to get the landscape ps file. However when you convert to pdf the page is shown sideways and on my acroread i cannot rotate it. Viewing a presentation sideways is not fun. Any ideas how you can get acroread to view true landscape? Tom Thanks for the suggestion. It is not easy to do that because the seminar style uses several PostScript specials. These would all have to be rewritten to used pdflatex. Also, I am incorporating PostScript figures into the slides. I would have to convert all of them to PDF for pdflatex. Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces %%BeginSetup %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi TeXDict begin @landscape %%EndSetup If I modify this to %%BeginSetup %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi TeXDict begin /PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 setpagedevice %%EndSetup I can convert the PostScript file to PDF with ps2pdf and get the desired orientation.
RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
| AHH.. I have just seen your later post about editing the pd file. | Question: Do you find the quality of ps2pdf satisfactory. Are you | really projecting this? Perhaps I don't have the right gs fonts or | something cos my fonts come out horrid. Any tips. This is probably an off-the-wall suggestion, but it could be useful. If you go to the web site of the NSF (National Science Foundation), you can find a long, detailed, and very informative tutorial about producing PDF documents from various kinds of sources (including (La)TeX, by way of ghostscript and ps2pdf). The reason the tutorial is there is that NSF now requires on-line submission of research proposals for most of its programs, and PDF is the required format. As a consequence, they've had to develop a large store of knowledge about how to produce good-quality PDF documents (especially documents that will display and print reliably on systems other than those on which they were created). The tutorial devotes special attention to font issues. This is the URL: http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm I've found it very useful. Jim
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Damn, I had to make a presentation using a laptop and a projector.
I could not use a PDF file because acroread would not show the
document in landscape. From the previous messages the way to convert
the PS to PDF is given by the next example.
Say the latex file is:
\documentclass[semhelv,landscape,12pt]{seminar}
\begin{document}
\begin{slide}
A darned slide.
\end{slide}
\end{document}
$ latex test.tex
$ dvips -Ppdf -t landscape test.dvi -o test.ps
Edit the postscript with:
Thomas Halahan wrote:
Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the
PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces
%%BeginSetup
%%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
TeXDict begin
@landscape
%%EndSetup
If I modify this to
%%BeginSetup
%%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
TeXDict begin
/PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 setpagedevice
%%EndSetup
After checking http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/a1/pdfcreat.htm we
use the cammand:
$ ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 \
-dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true test.ps test.pdf
$ acroread test.pdf
Now it shows right within acroread! I guess I won't be
needing Corel Office 2000 or StarOffice now :).
--
Rafael
RE: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. Just a thought: have you tried generating PDF directly from the LaTeX source with pdflatex? I have no idea whether this will solve your problem, but it might be worth a try. Regards, Paul
Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
Stephenson, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. Just a thought: have you tried generating PDF directly from the LaTeX source with pdflatex? I have no idea whether this will solve your problem, but it might be worth a try. Thanks for the suggestion. It is not easy to do that because the seminar style uses several PostScript specials. These would all have to be rewritten to used pdflatex. Also, I am incorporating PostScript figures into the slides. I would have to convert all of them to PDF for pdflatex. Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the PostScript Prolog. Dvips produces %%BeginSetup %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi TeXDict begin @landscape %%EndSetup If I modify this to %%BeginSetup %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi TeXDict begin /PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 setpagedevice %%EndSetup I can convert the PostScript file to PDF with ps2pdf and get the desired orientation.
ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style
I am using Debian Linux 2.2 (potato). I also have access to systems running 2.3 (woody) if that would help. I have created a presentation in LaTeX using the seminar style. I use landscape orientation for the slides. The room where I want to give the presentation has a computer running Windows with Acrobat Reader available. I would like to convert the slides to PDF and use the full-screen feature of Acrobat to display them. My difficulty is that ps2pdf does not follow the papersize hints. The resultant PDF file is rotated 90 degrees when I try to view it. Has anyone been successful at producing PDF from landscape slides done with the seminar style? Please cc: me on any replies. I am too far behind on messages to this list to ever hope to catch up.
