ps2pdf landscape output

Toby McMillan, RHCE toby.mcmillan at gmail.com
Thu Apr 27 21:10:35 UTC 2006


There you go! I knew there was gonna be a --landscape option
somewhere. well, -r or --landscape :-)

On 4/28/06, Allen K. Smith <lazlor at bigboy.lotaris.org> wrote:
> enscript -r ?
>
> On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:44, Toby McMillan, RHCE wrote:
> > Is it possible to have a landscape orientation on a file created by
> > ps2pdf? What I'm trying to do is:
> >
> > 1. Process file.txt into file.ps (using enscript --word-wrap
> > --output=file.ps file.txt)
> > 2. Process file.ps into file.pdf (via ps2pdf)
> >
> > The only problem is I have long lines in file.txt which cause them to
> > be wrapped on a portrait orientation. It would really be great if I
> > can pass "landscape orientation" options to ps2pdf . I tried reading
> > up a bit on Ghostscript and read this:
> >
> > "When there is no text on the page or automatic page rotation is set
> > to /None an orientation value from setpagedevice is used. Valid values
> > are: 0 (portrait), 3 (landscape), 2 (upside down), and 1 (seascape).
> > The orientation can be set from the command line as -c "<</Orientation
> > 3>> setpagedevice" using Ghostscript directly but cannot be set in
> > ps2pdf."
> >
> > Next question: How do I do this in Ghostscript? say, replace step 2 with gs?
> >
> > Pointers appreciated. Thanks.
> >
>
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