generating a landscape pdf seminar

[Warren Hedley]

Hi,

I seem to be having an unbelievable amount of difficulty
generating a PDF from a seminar in landscape mode with
the standard set of latex tools + ps2pdf. Here's the
landscape slides document from the FAQ:

\documentclass{seminar}

\usepackage{semcolor}
\input{seminar.bug}

\begin{document}

\begin{slide}
The slide environment WITHOUT the portrait option.
\end{slide}

\end{document}

I then latex that. The result looks good with

xdvi -paper usr landscape.dvi

I then try and to generate a postscript using dvips and I
think it's here that I start running into difficulties.

dvips -o landscape.ps -t landscape landscape.dvi

A subsequent

showps landscape.ps

shows that the paper appears to be in portrait mode. This
is confirmed by

ps2pdf landscape.ps landscape.pdf
acroread landscape.pdf

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

--
Warren Hedley

[Rolf Niepraschk]

Look at

==> http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~lehmke/TeXPower/

`fixseminar.sty' may help...

...Rolf

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[H.We...@itm.rwth-aachen.de]

>>>>> "Rolf" == Rolf Niepraschk <niepr...@ptb.de> writes:

Rolf> ==> http://ls1-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~lehmke/TeXPower/

Rolf> `fixseminar.sty' may help...

You might have to include the config.landscapeplus from the contrib
section into your config.ps and then give the -ta4l option to dvips.
At least this did the trick for me.

Hth
Holger
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[Robin Fairbairns]

Warren Hedley <w.he...@auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
>I seem to be having an unbelievable amount of difficulty
>generating a PDF from a seminar in landscape mode with
>the standard set of latex tools + ps2pdf. Here's the
>landscape slides document from the FAQ:
>
>\documentclass{seminar}
>\usepackage{semcolor}
>\input{seminar.bug}
>\begin{document}
>\begin{slide}
> The slide environment WITHOUT the portrait option.
>\end{slide}
>\end{document}
>
>I then latex that. The result looks good with

>[...]

>dvips -o landscape.ps -t landscape landscape.dvi
>
>A subsequent

i think that's your problem: -t landscape is for printing a document
processed in portrait form. since seminar inserts a
\special{landscape}, dvips is switching to landscape mode twice.
since the switch is merely a \pi/2 rotation, you simply get the page
printed rotated by \pi.
--
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge