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Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape

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Peter Billam wrote:
> Greetings :-)  This Postscript file for a greeting card:
>   http://www.pjb.com.au/comp/free/ooo_pjb_com_au_card.ps
> views just fine on my debian stable gv 3.7.4, ie: it displays in
> A4 Portrait, which if I fold in half gives me a greeting card :-)
> 
> But converting it to pdf (for the local photocopy shop) with:
>   cat ooo_pjb_com_au_card.ps | /usr/bin/gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
>    -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=ooo_pjb_com_au_card.pdf -
> it gives me a ooo_pjb_com_au_card.pdf which when I view it with
>   gv ooo_pjb_com_au_card.pdf
> displays in Seascape, all shifted around and with most of
> the image chopped off :-(

The resulting PDF works fine for me when
viewed using Abode Reader.  Perhaps the
problem is with gv.

You could also improve the command line a
little to something like:
/usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sPAPERSIZE=a4 
-sOutputFile=ooo_pjb_com_au_card.pdf -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -f 
ooo_pjb_com_au_card.ps

> Do I need to specify something I haven't specified ?

To force portrait mode from the command line,
the gs manual suggests inserting:
-dAutoRotatePages=/None  -c "<</Orientation 0>> setpagedevice"

However, adding this before -f changes
nothing on my system.
-- 
Regards,
Martin Leese
E-mail: please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID
Web: http://members.tripod.com/martin_leese/

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converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2016-03-05 00:28 +0000
  Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-03-05 12:02 -0700
    Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2016-03-06 01:56 +0000
      Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape Peter Billam <peter@www.pjb.com.au> - 2016-03-06 05:02 +0000
        Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-05 21:34 -0800
    Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2016-03-05 23:07 -0700

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