Bug#300252: eps graphic doesn't scale down

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

tags 300252 fixed-in-experimental
thanks

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 18.03.05 maximilian attems (debian@sternwelten.at) wrote:
>
> Moin,
>
>> a friend of mine while working on an astronomy presentation,
>> noticed that the following eps graphic is wrongly displayed in all
>> tested dvi viewers: xdvi, kdvi, yap.
>> 
> \begin{figure}[ht]
> \centering
> \rotatebox{-90}{\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{gallex1.eps}}
> \caption{GALLEX: Resultate}
> \label{fig:gallex1}
> \end{figure}
>
> Yes, thats why they are called dvi viewers, not ps viewers.
> I don't have the graphics-doc at hand in the moment, but I guess
> every doc about that topic will tell you, that you have to convert
> your dvi file first into an ps file, before it will be displayed
> correctly, especially when using rotation etc.

The new xdvi (in experimental) has some builtin ability to interpret
Postscript code.  It displays a warning, but the figure is correctly
displayed (in "landscape" orientation).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer