[Mac OS X TeX] Seminar/Landscape

[Ross Moore]

> Hi -
> 
> This seems almost trivial after the advice I had over the weekend on 
> seminar/landscape and hyperref. However, I still don't get the results I 
> need on the actual files. Here's what I need to do (I'm using TeXShop):
> 
> I have slides in 'seminar' that need to
> a) be in landscape mode
> b) display hyperlinks in the pdf file
> c) include graphics files in .eps format
> 
> A. If I use pdflatex I get (a) and (b) , but (c) is a problem. I tried the 
> easy approach of converting the .eps files into .pdf using TeXShop, but I 
> guess I need to work with bounding boxes and all to get the sizes right. I 
> have too many files and too many old presentations - so I don't really want 
> to do all the conversions. What I'd really like to make work is B.

Don't you have the script:  epstopdf  ?
It's a Perl script that calls Ghostscript to do the conversion.
It reads the %%BoundingBox  to get the size right automatically.

If you have a lot of .eps files in the same directory, then
do   ls *.eps > epsfiles
then edit the text file  epsfiles  to create lines:

  epstopdf pict001.eps  pict001.pdf
  epstopdf pict002.eps  pict002.pdf
  ...

using the names of your images.
It's just a few minutes work to do this.
Then do:   chmod a+x epsfiles  to make it an executable script.
Now  ./epsfiles
will set it running to do all the conversions.
It'll be finished before the kettle boils.


Hope this helps,

	Ross Moore


 
> B. If I use Tex + Ghostscript (altpdflatex), I can get (b) and (c) if I use
> \usepackage[dvips]{hyperref} - however, the landscape mode gets chopped off 
> on the right. If I use just \usepackage{hyperref} the landscape mode works 
> fine (after a rotation in Acrobat), but this doesn't produce hyperlinks.
> 
> I suppose the way to go is (A) after converting the .eps files and I can do 
> this in the long term - but is there a short-term solution for (B)?
> 
> Thanks for all your help
> 
> - Hemant Bhargava
> 
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