Bugs item #300, was opened at 2005-02-24 06:15 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=300&group_id=106 Category: PDF inclusion Group: v1.21a
Status: Closed Resolution: Invalid Priority: 5 Submitted By: John Denker (jsd) Assigned to: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Summary: "page is rotated 90 degrees" for no reason
Initial Comment:
Hi --
I have a good-sized document that uses
\includegraphics{} to include about 250 images, each of
which was prepared in the same way, converting a .eps
file to a .pdf file using epstopdf. Of these, 65 of
them end up rotated 90 degrees for no reason. The .log
file mentions the fact, saying
page is rotated 90 degrees
and a glance at the output document confirms this.
What is happening? Why is it happening? Why is it not
documented? How do I make it stop happening?
I have looked at the source to pdflatex without finding
anything that fiddles with the "rotate" angle. I have
done experiments including changing the \textwidth
without finding anything that has any effect. I have
no clue why some images are rotated and some are not;
it is not a function of image-width or anything simple
like that.
Putting an explicit [angle=0] directive on the
\includegraphics has no effect.
I have scrutinized the image files using "identify
-verbose" and "pdfinfo" without finding anything that
would explain the observed behavior.
I have searched the archives of the mailing-list as
best I could using the modest search facilities
available. I have skimmed the open and closed bugs on
the bug-reporting system.
I downloaded the latest tetex-texmf distro from ctan to
make sure the problem exists in that version. The
problem is 100% reproducible. Version info from the
head of the .log file is:
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C
7.5.4) (format=pdflatex 2005.2.23) 23 FEB 2005 23:32
entering extended mode
**how.tex
(./how.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel
Comment By: Martin Schröder (oneiros) Date: 2005-02-24 11:11
Message: Logged In: YES user_id=421 This is not a bug in pdftex, but a (mis)feature of ghostscript (which follows a (mis)feature of Adobe Distiller): Both distillers try to find pages that really should be landscape but are portrait and then set the /Rotate attribute of the page, which pdftex honours. This behaviour of gs can be configured: The parameter is AutoRotatePages; more information is at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm Try with ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=printer ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=493&aid=300&group_id=106