mike scott wrote:
I've been using OOo for ages now, and it's done well -- very well in
fact -- by me. But I seem to have reached a bit of a no-go area.
I'm trying to make an A5 landscape booklet, containg both graphics and
text, and which particularly needs to include some postscript produced
by another program (abcm2ps, a music typesetter, converted to epsi).
The problem centres round that the PS, while landscape, is oriented
sideways to print on "portrait" paper - it prints correctly of course.
On past occasions, I've just dropped the PS in place; the (rather
nasty) epsi preview is shown on-screen, but the printout is correct (at
least to a postscript device!) and gives the full-resolution needed.
The problem now is the rotation........
My intention had originally been to use writer, format pages as A5
landscape, drop in the PS and rotate it. But writer won't rotate images
(it's also pretty limited with other image operations too, like
alignment) . I've had to switch to draw -- but now I lose all the
stylist stuff, at least as far as text goes, along with headers,
footers, (decent) page numbering, indexing...... /and/ I'm having to
work sideways because even draw produces incorrect rotated postscript
output (the bounding box looks rotated, afaict the content is just
scaled to fit the new bb).
I've hunted round for something simple to rotate the epsi before
inclusion, but without luck (the obvious perl modules off cpan,
surprisingly, are buggy).
I would dearly have loved too, to be using a master document, which
would eminently suit the structure of the booklet. But that only works
with text documents, not draw documents.
One very disappointed bunny here. I'll make it work - but this problem
should be /so/ much easier. If anyone can suggest options, I'd be
grateful.
:-( :-(
There is an issue about the lack of being able to rotate images in Writer.
Try ImageMagik and see if that will work for you.
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
Here is a link to some tutorials.
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
From the format page, it says it needs ghostscript to read PS files.
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Robin Laing
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