ps2pdf landscape output
Allen K. Smith
lazlor at bigboy.lotaris.org
Thu Apr 27 20:55:20 UTC 2006
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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