Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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From: greg@cygnus.sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Subject: Landscape EPS files.
Message-ID: <1990Nov22.210919.27574@ccs.carleton.ca>
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Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 90 21:09:19 GMT


Greetings:  Please forgive me if this question has been discussed to
death in the past, but I am not terribly conversant in PostScript and
I am perplexed.

I am trying to generate encapsulated post script so that I can feed
the output of a tool that we are developing here at Carleton into TeX
documents.  If I produce output from the tool with portrait
orientation, the postscript is incorporated perfectly.  However, if I
produce output with landscape orientation, TeX leaves the correct
amount of space for the figure, but places it in the wrong location.
I have checked the bounding box values from the tool for the eps file,
and they are correct (as determined by using a ruler).

In both cases I am setting up the translation matrix for the image
myself (eg [aaa 0 0 bbb xxx yyy] concat).  The entire postscript file
is bracketed with 'save' and 'restore'.  Questions: Is the concat
operation legal in EPS files? Is the fact that I am rotating the image
causing my dvi to postscript converter grief?  Or am I missing
something.

Please send email (too much news and not enough time to read it all).
I will summarize to the net if requested.  Thanks.

Sign me
  ..perplexed





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