Bug#118563: tetex-bin: dvips does not rotate
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20001218-6
Severity: normal
Hi,
I am trying to rotate an A0 landscape poster to portrait format. I want to
scale it down and print a preview on a letter printer and I later want to
print it on an A0 printer, I think it has to be rotated, otherwise part of
it is cut-off (the letter preview is cut off when its not rotated). I know I
had that working a few years ago and I am not sure if the problem lies on my
end or in dvips. The dvips manpage says:
You can also specify -t land
scape, which rotates a document by 90 degrees. To
rotate a document whose size is not letter, you can
use the -t option twice, once for the page size,
and once for landscape.
However:
dvips -ta4 -tlandscape -o postera0.ps postera0.dvi
This is dvips(k) 5.86d Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2001.11.06:1835' -> postera0.ps
dvips: both landscape and papersize specified: ignoring landscape
dvips: warning: -t selected paper may be too small
a4 is obviously the wrong pagesize, but there is no a0 (nor a1 or a2)
defined in /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ps. If I add a0 there (which IMHO
should be in the config by default in the debian package), it still does not
work, I can not specify both, papersize and landscape, which IMHO is a bug?
Even when I only use dvips -tlandscape, I get:
dvips: both landscape and papersize specified: ignoring landscape
which I find a little odd, I don't see any environment which would specify
the papersize? Except for /etc/papersize maybe... maybe I have to add A0 to
/etc/paper.config as well? This is from gnome-libs-data so I guess thats
complete unrelated.
I remember we might have used a special papersize a0l for the landscape
format, I will try to dig that out (after all I want to print that poster
without converting it to a bitmap), maybe that could be mentioned somewhere
in the dvips docs, if that solves the problem.
If I am doing something very stupid here, please enlighten me.
Thanks,
Christian
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux lepjas2 2.4.12 #1 Thu Oct 18 15:49:35 EDT 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-1
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debianutils 1.15 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.9.17 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-19 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.2.4-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libkpathsea3 1.0.7+20001218-6 shared libkpathsea for teTeX
ii libpng2 1.0.12-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
ii libtiff3g 3.5.5-6 Tag Image File Format library
ii libwww-ssl0 5.3.2-7 The W3C-WWW library. (SSL support)
ii libwww-ssl0 [libwww0] 5.3.2-7 The W3C-WWW library. (SSL support)
ii libxaw7 4.1.0-8 X Athena widget set library
ii perl-base 5.6.1-5 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis
ii tetex-base 1.0.2+20000804-9 basic teTeX library files
ii xlibs 4.1.0-8 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.3-16 compression library - runtime
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