[OS X TeX] Page origin problem with TeXLive and dvips

[Herbert Schulz]

On Feb 1, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

>
> Looking at the code in the shell script simpdftex, I get the  
> impression the addition of another option --distiller-opts would be  
> the only solution, by mimicking --extratexopts and -- 
> extradvipsopts, namely:
>
> - At line 324, add:
>
> 	--distiller-opts)
> 		shift
> 		distiller-options="$1"
> 		;;
>
> - At lines 533 and 538, replace:
>
> 	"${distillerprog}"
>
> by:
>
> 	"${distillerprog}" ${distiller-options}
>
> - Update the usage information accordingly.
>
> I'm not sure that would work (especially in combination with -- 
> distiller-filter), given my limited understanding of programming,  
> but that might be worth trying: modify simpdftex as above, then try:
>
> 	simpdftex latex --maxpfb --distiller-opts="-dAutoRotatePages=/None"
>
> Bruno
>

Howdy,

One should also initialize the distiller-opts string to "" around  
line 159. I don't have enough confidence to actually touch it  
though :-).

Maybe one should leave out the hyphen for consistency; the other  
option strings don't have one.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)



------------------------- Helpful Info -------------------------
Mac-TeX Website: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/
TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq
List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/
List Reminders & Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/