Hi,
I can not test it on my mac right now, but I just verified that the
solution I suggested works with tetex on a digital unix machine...
It seems to work at least with the article, slides and seminar document
classes.
What I do is the following. I have in the preamble just
\documentclass{article} (or slides or seminar)
\usepackage[a4paper,landscape]{geometry}
(no landscape option in documentclass).
By the way, geometry is a very nice package, it lets you very easily
modify the page layout with other options or just choose `letterpaper'
instead of `a4paper'.
Then run:
latex file.tex
dvips -t landscape -o file.ps file
ps2pdf file.ps
(for some reason with the seminar class the -t landscape option in dvips
is
not even needed).
The file.pdf I get is in landscape format. Indeed it shows up in portrait
orientation in gv, but I just have to select seascape from the menu.
I don't know why it's not working for you... I'll try it on the mac
later.
Stefano
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:43:25 -0800 (PST), "Vivien Mary Kendon"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> [Two replies in one here: Stefano see below]
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > On lundi, fév 17, 2003, at 14:22 Europe/Paris, Vivien Mary Kendon wrote:
> >
> > > 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 think it is not completely out of topic here, because it is an old
> > problem, and the possible solutions depend heavily on the precise
> > version of tetex installed.
>
> Oh dear, this is clearly a seriously advanced black art.
> And I'm only a beginner in it it would seem...
>
> Your method does not work for me. If I replace my preamble with yours
> and
> follow your recipe I get a couple of latex errors (it doesn't like the
> a4paper option and mutters about magnification), and end up with a pdf
> file containing a couple of blank pages, then my slides start on page 3,
> but they are about a6 size, correct orientation, with a black box around
> them, sitting in the middle left of an a4 portrait page! (At least, I
> trust that isn't what you thought I'd get?!)
>
> If I don't replace my preamble, then your landscape_90.ps does nothing,
> I get a portrait page with cropped-on-the-right landscape content.
>
> If I use the file /sw/share/ghostscript/8.0/lib/landscap.ps instead of
> yours, I get the contents rotated by 90 degrees so it would fit portrait,
> but also offset so the bottom edge is in the middle of a portrait a4 page
> and cropped on the top (now right) at the edge of an a4 portrait page.
> But I get it in a _landscape_ a4 page so it is also cropped on the right
> (now bottom) edge! (But maybe I haven't commented/uncommented the right
> things in that landscap.ps file yet...I'll work on it.)
>
> Gawd...anyone else want to pile in?
>
> Ahh, Stefano does:
>
> > From: Stefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 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.
>
> Nope, didn't for me. Landscape content, portrait pdf page. Viewed in gv
> and in Preview.
>
> BUT, just found out part of the problem is with gv viewing pdf: I tried
> one of my earlier tests in Preview and it comes out correctly!! (But is
> badly cropped and aligned in gv.) Yeah!! Now I have to figure out
> _which_ test that was %*| And test in some more viewers...
>
> Thanks for all your suggestions thus far...I'll report back if I can
> figure out any pattern to what seems to work and not work after further
> testing.
>
> -- Viv
>
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