Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF

From	helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply))
Newsgroups	comp.lang.postscript
Subject	Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF
Date	2021-09-17 09:42 +0000
Organization	Multivax C&R
Message-ID	<si1nuq$1tou$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink)
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In article <MPG.3bae4ba7fab2350d9898cb@usenet.plus.net>, ken
<ken@spamcop.net> writes: 

> In article <si038n$njr$1@gioia.aioe.org>, 
> helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de says...
> 
> > diagrams, etc.) with the same Fortran program.  They look fine when 
> > viewed with ghostscript or when printed out or when embedded in a LaTeX 
> > document.  In TWO cases I've notived that after converting them to PDF 
> > with ghostview, PDF viewers show them rotated by 90 degrees.
> 
> Why use Ghostview to create the PDF rather than using Ghostscript 
> directly ?

Sorry, typo; I converted with ghostscript.

> Apart from any other considerations, GSView (I'm assuming that's what 
> you mean by ghostview) doesn't work with recent versions of Ghostscript 
> which means you're locked to an old version, with bugs and security 
> issues.

I'm using GV, which IIRC is the result of some fork, on VMS.  Yes, it 
works only for older stuff.  I have a newer ghostscript.

> Anyway, the 'most likely' explanation is that the majority of the text 
> is horizontal when the page is rotated. You need to set -
> dAutoRotatePages=false to prevent that.

Interesting idea.  However, it is a plot and the only text are the axis 
labels, one letter each.

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file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) - 2021-09-16 18:43 +0000
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    Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) - 2021-09-17 04:43 +0000
  Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2021-09-17 07:52 +0100
    Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) - 2021-09-17 09:42 +0000
      Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2021-09-17 16:03 +0100
        Re: file rotated by 90 degrees after converted to PDF helbig@asclothestro.multivax.de (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) - 2021-09-17 16:00 +0000

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