[OS X TeX] Undesired Rotated Figure in Ps4Pdf & PSTricks

[Vince McGarry]

Thanks, Herb. It works!

Vince


On May 25, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 5/18/05 9:28 AM, "Vince McGarry" <vmcgarry at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On May 18, 2005, at 4:43 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Eureka! That works.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is enlightening and it does work. Thanks, Bruno. Ross's remarks
>> are interesting, as well. Although this recent addition may not be
>> the best choice for "default" behavior, it appears that this will be
>> the expected behavior of these scripts from now on.
>>
>>
>>> It might then make sense to keep automatic rotation as the default
>>> for both ps2pdf and epstopdf, but provide easy switches for the
>>> user to modify this default on a per-file basis or in a pref file.
>>>
>>
>> Is it easy to provide "easy switches?"
>>
>> Vince
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> Sorry to take this long to get back top you but I've been out of  
> town and
> offline for the last week. It also gave me time to look over things  
> like
> ps2pdf13 and ps2pdfwr, etc., for an alternative to editing the  
> latter. What
> I discovered is that adding the -dAutoRotatePages=/None option to the
> ps2pdf13 call works quite well since that is passed to ps2pdfwr and  
> then
> onto gs. The following ps4pdf.engine seems to work well:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> basefname=$(basename "$1" .tex)
> # process the figures
> latex --shell-escape "$1"
> dvips -Ppdf -o "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}.dvi"
> ps2pdf13 -dAutoRotatePages=/None "${basefname}-pics.ps"
> "${basefname}-pics.pdf"
> pdfcrop "${basefname}-pics.pdf"
> /bin/mv "${basefname}-pics-crop.pdf" "${basefname}-pics.pdf"
> /bin/rm "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}.dvi"
> #process the file
> pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
>
> where you can see that the -dAutoRotatePages=/None option has been  
> added to
> the ps2pdf13 line.
>
> For those using my adaptation of pdftricks to use pdfcrop for correct
> Bounding Boxes I've added that to it too. You can pick up the  
> changed file
> from my download site, <http://homepage.mac.com/herbs2/>, as
> NewPdftricks.zip. I will try to make this an option to pdftricks  
> with the
> default being no auto-rotation but I'll need a little time.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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