Bug#199511: tetex-bin: epstopdf is rotating the output by 90 degrees

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 02.07.03 Ajay Shah (ajayshah@mayin.org) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:31:27PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> > On 01.07.03 Ajay Shah (ajayshah@mayin.org) wrote:

Hi,

> > > I attach a .eps file, and the .pdf file that's produced by
> > > running it through epstopdf. The .eps file is fine. The .pdf
> > > file gets rotated by 90 degrees. I found this behaviour with
> > > both xpdf and with acroread.
> > > 
> > Me again. Is this the same as #171406?
> 
> I did not file 171406, but it sure looks similar.
> 
> They are suggesting we should move to gs-esp. Is that a useful fork
> to go along with?
> 
Nope, not really. OK, let me explain the situation:
The old version of epstopdf called gs with the option
-dAutoRotatePages=/None
. However, it *is* possible, that this option is not desired so Heiko
decided not to hard code it into epstopdf any more. Your solution
could be to set an shell variable for gs. That could look like:

 GS_OPTIONS=-dAutoRotatePages=/None epstopdf --outfile=foo.pdf foo.eps

/usr/share/doc/gs/Ps2pdf.htm and /usr/share/doc/gs/Use.htm . I've
found a few discussions in the german Usenet about that topic and
they addressed more general problems with epstopdf (do we want a
config-file for that program or not, any volunteer, who speaks perl
and implements that)...

HTH,
  Hilmar 
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