config.ps and landscape page size

[Zdenek Wagner]

Yes, this is not a bug but long known feature. I am not sure how
geometry exactly works, I try to address this problem in my
zwpagelayout package. Can you try whether it works for you? This was
extremely important for me when sending the PS to a phototypesetter
because the film is quite expensive and I wanted to get it right.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml

pá 23. 7. 2021 v 17:12 odesílatel Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de> napsal:
>
> If one create a *nearly* letter landscape page with
>
>    %nearly letter landscape
>    \usepackage[paperwidth=11in,paperheight=8in]{geometry}
>
> and then compile with dvips + pstopdf one get a landscape mediaBox
> and Rotation 0 in the pdf:
>
>   /Type/Page/MediaBox [0 0 792 576] /Rotate 0
>
> If one use *exactly* letter size
>
>    \usepackage[paperwidth=11in,paperheight=8.5in]{geometry}
>
> Then the mediabox is portrait and there is a rotation:
>
>    /Type/Page/MediaBox [0 0 612 792]
> /Rotate 270
>
>
> This is a bit of a problem as it affects appearances of form field
> widget annotations which then need special code to detect this and
> to rotate everything back, and it also makes it difficult to rotate
> an individual page in the document: in the first case you must add a
> rotation of 90 and in the second of 180 or 0.
>
>
> I wonder if one could extend config.ps and add real landscape
> settings at least for the main page sizes. E.g. if I add this:
>
> @ letterlandscape 11in 8.5in
> @+ ! %%DocumentPaperSizes: LetterLandscape
> @+ %%BeginPaperSize: LetterLandscape
> @+ /setpagedevice where
> @+  { pop << /PageSize [792 612] >> setpagedevice }
> @+ if
> @+ %%EndPaperSize
>
> then I get the right mediabox (which you get also with pdflatex)
> also for the letter case
>
> /Type/Page/MediaBox [0 0 792 612]
> /Rotate 0
>
>
>
> --
> Ulrike Fischer
> http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
>