RE: [TCLUG:11173] PostScript Question...

["Schlough, Mark" <Mark.Schlough@nmb.norwest.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Eric M. Hopper [SMTP:hopper@omnifarious.mn.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, December 15, 1999 1:46 PM
> To:	tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject:	Re: [TCLUG:11173] PostScript Question...
> 
> On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 01:33:03PM -0600, Schlough, Mark wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to use the ps2pdf file to generate Acrobat files from
> > PostScript files.
> > 
> > When the application the generates the postscript file is done, it
> > leaves an image that is readable in GhostView.  When I setup the
> > application to printout the results as landscape, I go into GV and
> > view it, but the orienation of the paper is portrait, but the image is
> > landscape. So, the paper looks like normal portrait, but I have to
> > cock my head to the side to read it.  I can't find a way to tell PS to
> > make the image appear wide in GV.  Is there any way to do this?
> 
> 	The little box that says 'Portrait' at the top of your gv window
> is in actuality a menu.  In fact, all the little boxes up there (except
> the filename and date boxes I think) are menus.
> 
> 	Anyway, click on the 'Portrait' menu.  I think there'll be an
> option there to change it to Landscape.
> 
	Yup,   Got it,  Thanks.  That Works. (c:

	Now, onto my more pressing issue.  I can't figure out a way to
generate a pdf file with ps2pdf and make a landscape image appear wide, in
acrobat or xpdf.

	This is the part that is baffling.  Acrobat and xPDF do not have an
"orientation" item on the menu screen :(    
	Is there a way to make the orientation of the page a part of the
posrtscript definition.  That way, the image that appears in gv as landscape
by default, will appear as landscape in PDF as well.

	Thanks,

	Mark

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