Dear Michael, We have not heard some time from you. I'm wondering whether some progress has been done on the new sciposter release that could potentially solve the problem? Many thanks in advance, Hilmar On 13.07.2012 09:22, Michael H.F. Wilkinson wrote: > Could be that I should either try to detect the usage of hyperref, or > add a "hyperref option to sciposter.cls > > This mail was not sent to all involved, so here a repeat: > > This all chimes with my hunch that the postscript "specials" in the > sciposter.cls code (inherited from a4poster) might be the problem. I > have been working on a version 2.0 of sciposter.cls, and someone kindly > sent me code replacing the page-setup code of sciposter with the calls > to the geometry package. I will test if that solves the problem. As my > personal beta version has been tested by quite a few and seems rock > solid in other respects, I shall try to get a release version with > manual ready. As I am overwhelmed by last minute exam stuff at work, I > do not know whether I can do this before the summer vacation (starting > July 21 for us). > > Cheers > > Michael > > > > On 13 July 2012 09:17, Frank Kuester <frank@kuesterei.ch > <mailto:frank@kuesterei.ch>> wrote: > > Heiko Oberdiek <heiko.oberdiek@googlemail.com > <mailto:heiko.oberdiek@googlemail.com>> writes: > > > The PostScript language allows the setting of the page size: > > operator `setpagedevice', entry `PageSize', but entry `Orientation' > > is only intended for roll-fed media. Also there is no easy way > > to extract these data without a PostScript interpreter. > > At least there are DSC-comments that allows the specification > > of the page size and orientation. Thus there are several ways > > for specifying (partly also version dependent) and some will > > work on somewhere and others somewhere else. > > Even worse if the width is greater than the height. That seems > > to be the main problem here. > > In other words, this is neither a bug in one of the involved packages, > nor in dvips. However, I fancy, it could be worked around if sciposter > had some code for interaction with hyperref? > > Is this true? > > Regards, Frank > > -- sigfault #206401 http://counter.li.org
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