[tex-live] dvips

[Zdenek Wagner]

2011/1/10 Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
>> Am 10.01.2011 11:37, schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
>>
>> > It's most probably in powerdot because it was updated too. The
>> > following documentworks fine:
>>
>> because it was me, who updated powerdot, I know, that there
>> changed nothing ... ;-)
>>
>> > \documentclass{article}
>> > \usepackage[a4,Landscape]{zwpagelayout}
>> > \begin{document}
>> > Anything
>> > \end{document}
>>
>> no, this document also is not _viewed_ in landscape mode.
>> I had also to use dvips -t landscape!
>
> i've just run zdenek's test too.  it produced landscape output (though
> the "anything" was upside-down at bottomr right.
>
It behaves this way fo decades. It was so even in DOS and OS/2 version
of dvips that I used 18 years ago. If sent to a PS printer it will be
OK.

> note that this was the first tex i've run this morning.  i had run
>  tlmgr update --all
> a short while back.
>
>



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