Re: ps2pdf and LaTeX's seminar style

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

Maybe a better way to do this, rather than edit the ps file is to
issue 

>> dvips -t landscape filename.dvi -o

to get the landscape ps file.  However when you convert to pdf the
page is shown sideways and on my acroread i cannot rotate it. 
Viewing a presentation sideways is not fun.  Any ideas how you can
get acroread to view true landscape?

Tom

> Thanks for the suggestion.  It is not easy to do that because the
> seminar style uses several PostScript specials.  These would all have
> to be rewritten to used pdflatex.  Also, I am incorporating PostScript
> figures into the slides.  I would have to convert all of them to PDF
> for pdflatex.
> 
> Another person showed me that I can do what I wish by changing the
> PostScript Prolog.  Dvips produces 
> 
> %%BeginSetup
> %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
> TeXDict begin
>  @landscape
> %%EndSetup
> 
> If I modify this to 
> 
> %%BeginSetup
> %%Feature: *Resolution 1200dpi
> TeXDict begin
>   << /PageSize [792 612] /Orientation 0 >> setpagedevice
> %%EndSetup
> 
> I can convert the PostScript file to PDF with ps2pdf and get the
> desired orientation.
>