[dev-context] wrong paper orientation with pstopdf

[Hans Hagen]

Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
>
> Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>>
>> OK, but without -dAutoRotatePages=/None the conversion is OK. If the
>> orientation would be "hardcoded too deply" I can imagine that printers
>> might experience problems while printing files produced by gnuplot.
>> What's wrong with %%Orientation: Landscape?
>
> Nothing, but since it is not really a postscript command, just a
> structure comment, so I would expect pstopdf to ignore it.
>
> The situation is a bit complicated because removing the -dAuto...
> makes other documents fail. You are right for this document,
> but that is only a subset of the potentially wrong files :-(
>
>> How should I create proper PDF out of that file then?
>
> By checking the output manually and adjusting that option as neede,
> I fear.
indeed, an option is to change the default behaviour based on some unique preamble line, no fun 

Hans 

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