[texshop] Auto-rotation of landscape pages upon printing

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Dec 6, 2021, at 5:42 PM, Bruno Voisin <bvoisin at icloud.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 7 Dec 2021, at 00:29, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I believe by default ps2pdf does auto-rotation (usually when you don't want it :-(). If you can use latex->dvips->ps2pdf (i.e., the latex engine) try that.
> 
> Hi Herb,
> 
> The problem is not in the auto-rotation in TeX: auto-rotation does work there. If you look at Buoyant-Oscillations.pdf, the first three pages are portrait and the fourth landscape, exactly as intended.
> 
> The problem is when printing this PDF file in TeXShop: Preview rotates automatically the landscape page before sending it to the printer, yielding the portrait output in Buoyant-Oscillations-Preview.pdf. TeXShop doesn't, however, so you get the output in Buoyant-Oscillations-TeXShop.pdf, where the landscape page is kept landscape, shrinked horizontally, cropped and inserted in portrait output.
> 
> This is in PDF files, but that's exactly when I saw first, to my great surprise, on the paper sheets out of the printer.
> 
> Bruno

Howdy,

I was just wondering if using latex->dvips->ps2pdf would print properly.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
herbs at wideopenwest.com