Bug#118563: marked as done (tetex-bin: dvips does not rotate)
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From: "Christian T. Steigies" <cts@debian.org>
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Subject: tetex-bin: dvips does not rotate
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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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On 14.01.05 Hilmar Preusse (hille42@web.de) wrote:
Hi all,
> BTW: I guess that bug only occuers, when using a0poster. As that
> package has been removed from teTeX 2.0.2 I guess, we can close
> that bug. The licensing issues were clarified, but Thomas didn't
> like the code, so he decided to not reinclude it.
>
Bug was caused by the a0poster package, which has been excluded from
teTeX. Further during that bug came up the wish to include an option
for A0 paper into config.ps. That was done in teTeX 3.0. We could tag
the bug fixed-in-experimental now, but I rather tend to close it, as
the original problem was fixed in 2.0.2 by removing the buggy code.
H.
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