Re: true landscape orientation

Adding "%%Orientation: Landscape" to the header of the PostScript file
seems to get you part way there -- GV displays the page in landscape
mode but upside down.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Fred Clare <fredclare_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:36 PM, Rob Nicholas wrote:
>
>> Mary,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maybe there's a flag that one can put in a PS/PDF file that tells
>>> other PS/PDF viewing applications that the image has been rotated, and
>>> hence it should automatically show it in landscape mode. I'll ask our
>>> PS/PDF expert about this.
>>
>> I'm almost certain this is true -- most other applications I've used
>> that produce PostScript output seem to get this right. Unless it's PDF
>> (rather than PostScript) I'm thinking of (although the problem exists
>> with NCL's PDF output, too).
>
> I know of no Postscript or PDF operator that would specifically
> indicate to a viewing application to view the image as being rotated.
> Each language has a rotate operator, but that simply rotates the
> image within the context of the internal coordinate systems.
> Perhaps you could supply us with an example file that seems to
> have this property and I could look in there to see what is being
> used.
>
> Fred Clare
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> For now, can you use the "Rotate" button on your viewer to rotate
>>> the image as desired?
>>
>> Sure, though it gets to be a bit of a chore when you're producing 20
>> or 50 plots at a time. Let me know if you unearth a solution.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rob
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