[tex-k] FW: powerdot on linux

[Ivailo Partchev]

I have a new laptop with a 16:9 display, running ubuntu 9.04 x64 and
texlive 2008. 
The PS produced from powerdot automatically adjusts to fill the screen.
However, 
ps2pdf ends up with a landscape slide on a portrait page, truncated to
the right.

It seems that the following script, used instead of ps2pdf, solves the
problem

gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=792 
-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=445 -dFIXEDMEDIA -sOutputFile=$1.pdf 
-sDEVICE=pdfwrite -c "<</Orientation 3>> setpagedevice" -c .setpdfwrite 
-f $1.ps

The dimensions, 792 and 445, may be different, and have to be taken from
the 
%%BoundingBox line found near the beginning of the PS file

Ivailo Partchev
Jena, Germany