[OS X TeX] Undesired Rotated Figure in PSTricks

[Vince McGarry]

On May 16, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> I don't think that matters here: in "TeX + dvips + GS" mode,  
> TeXShop doesn't use epstopdf, and uses instead the script /usr/ 
> local/bin/simpdftex which doesn't call gs in the same way than  
> epstopdf. epstopdf says
>
>       my $pipe = "$GS -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite $GSOPTS - 
> dAutoRotatePages=/None" .
>           " -sOutputFile=$OutputFilename - -c quit";
>
> while simpdftex says
>
>     #distillerprog="/usr/local/bin/gs -dCompatibility=1.3 -q - 
> dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=- -c save pop"

I'm still trying to understand how all this works and I appreciate  
all of the help. I decided to look at this file and found this

# Default distiller is ps2pdf from /usr/local/bin in no filter mode
# as the direct call to a filtering gs does not work yet for some reason
#distillerpath=""
#distillerprog="/usr/local/bin/gs -dCompatibility=1.3 -q -dNOPAUSE - 
dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=- -c save pop"
#distillerfilter="yes"

All of this is a comment.


>
> Hence you have to add "-dAutoRotatePages=/None" to the list of  
> options when calling gs. I don't know how this could be done.  
> Possibly by using the option --distiller of simpdftex.
>
> You may try in TeXShop's pref Engine > "TeX + dvips + distiller" to  
> replace, for example,
>
>     altpdflatex --maxpfb
>
> by
>
>     altpdflatex --maxpfb --distiller="/usr/local/bin/gs - 
> dCompatibility=1.3 -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite - 
> dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile=- -c save pop"
>
> Absolutely untested!
>

I did test it. No change.

To kludge or not to kludge---change 90 to 89.99999. That'll get me by  
for the moment.

Vince
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