[OS X TeX] Undesired Rotated Figure in PSTricks

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Wed May 18 08:49:06 CEST 2005


If someone can get me a small test set I can investigate and see if I can
fix this.

G

> 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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