Quick note here, suppose you save a PostScript file and convert it to
PDF via ps2pdf, but the orientation was not properly embedded in the
PDF. How do you fix this? Use this command line rather than the
ps2pdf command:
gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sOutputFile=printout.pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None \
-c "<</Orientation 3>> setpagedevice" -f printout.ps
20190513/DuckDuckGo ghostscript ps2pdf orientation landscape
20190513/https://superuser.com/questions/70054/set-page-orientation-to-landscape-using-ps2pdf
20190513/https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-create-landscape-oriented-pdf-with-ghostscript-775308/
I thought there was an easier way I used before… I’ll have to investigate more. But yes, I had to use a Ghostscript command line.
Well, I guess this must have been the alternative command line I was using before:
gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite \
-sOutputFile=dummy2.pdf -dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=792 \
-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=612 -dFIXEDMEDIA -dPSFitPage pirates.ps
The idea was that I set the paper size to a landscape size and forced the contents to fit in that new size. It works, but it is not nearly as general as the other solution I’ve found more recently, since it does not allow for flipping. But, that’s what you get if you read the local documentation and experiment rather than searching the Internet.