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Re: converting to pdf messes up portrait to seascape

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On 2016-03-05, Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> wrote:
> 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.

I get a third possible outcome by:
  gs ooo_pjb_com_au_card.pdf
which displays rotated into Seascape format :-( but without being
translated and cropped through the middle of the picture like gv
does.  It all seems very unpredictable.

  gs ooo_pjb_com_au_card.ps
display correctly.

I woke with the theory that in -sDEVICE=pdfwrite the showpage 
was being interpreted within the context of the
  0 ymax 0.5 mul translate 0.707 0.707 scale -90 rotate
line, so I enclosed that line and everything up to the showpage
in a gsave ... grestore but alas, no change.  I'll embark on a
line-by-line pruning-campaign to try to localise the problem...

Regards,  Peter

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Peter Billam    www.pjb.com.au    www.pjb.com.au/comp/contact.html

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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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