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.
Stefano
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 05:22:03 -0800 (PST), "Vivien Mary Kendon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 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'm on all the latest 2.0-5 tetex, and ghostscript 8.0.
> Here's what I'm doing, lets call my document Land.tex:
>
> I'm making slides for a presentation, note the preamble starts
> \documentclass[a4paper,landscape]{slides}
>
> I run latex as usual: latex Land
>
> To view it as a dvi, I use the flags
> xdvi -paper a4r Land
>
> To convert it to ps I use the flags
> dvips -t landscape -o Land.ps Land
>
> This works fine, viewed in gv it comes out upside down until you "swap
> landscape" but that's not a problem.
>
> But dvipdf and ps2pdf don't have a flag for landscape!
> I tried using the paper size flags
>
> -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=842 -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=595
>
> and that turns a4 the paper sideways OK, but does not put the images in
> the right place on the paper (it is either off to the left with ps2pdf,
> or
> starts off the top of the page with dvipdf). I'm viewing the pdf output
> in gv. I've tried a bunch of other things too, and waded through a lot
> of
> the gs docs, but nothing useful came out of it.
>
> Feel free to tell me to shut up and go elsewhere if this is out of place
> on this list...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -- Viv
>
>
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