Portrait versus landscape mode
Arne Hallam <ahallam <at> iastate.edu>
2011-01-10 12:33:35 GMT
In response to the comments about portrait versus landscape mode,
there was a similar issue a couple of years ago related to updates
of the operating system.
This was the resolution then.
Matthias,
I followed Pedro's instructions mindlessly, and it worked fine on my
Fedora 9.
Also, I have found that the Fedora updates tend to mess up Powerdot
badly, for reasons unknown to me (already with Fedora 8 I had the same
problem). I would not install any updates to Fedora, otherwise you may
risk having to re-install Fedora again to let Powerdot run (admittedly,
these problems may be caused by my lack of computer knowledge).
Rafa
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008
Mat_1 <at> gmx.net wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm having exactly the same problem as Rafa (see his original post from
> May 2008 below). Pedro suggested to look for the config.ps bug at
>
> http://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html
>
> Apparently, there used to be a solution on this webpage in May 2008 (see
> Rafa's reply below). However, this website seems to have changed and I
> do not see any reference to a config.ps bug any more.
>
> I am working on a newly installed Fedora 9 machine and all my packages
> including texlive are up to date (I'm using the default Fedora repository).
>
> Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Matthias
>
>
>
> [powerdot] Re: Wrong orientation
>
> * From: Rafael de la Madrid <rafa <at> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> * To: powerdot <at> xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> * Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 16:10:52 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Hi Pedro,
>
> Thanks so much for your help, it worked! I spent the whole weekend
> trying to solve the problem, and you solved it for me in 2 seconds.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Rafa
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2008, Pedro Jorge Caridade wrote:
>
> > > Hi Rafa
> > > Have you check the config.ps bug of texlive2007?
> > > If not you need to check http://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html
> > > Pedro
> > >
> > > Rafael de la Madrid wrote:
> >> > > Hello,
> >> > >
> >> > > I'm having trouble with the orientation of the .ps (and .pdf) files
> >> > > produced by powerdot. I'm using the tex-live installed on Linux
> Fedora 9,
> >> > > and what is happening is that the GV program thinks that the file is in
> >> > > portrait mode, although powerdot is producing an output in landscape
> mode
> >> > > (as it should). So when I do the ps2pdf conversion, I basically get the
> >> > > landscape mode cut into portrait, with the right-hand part of the slide
> >> > > missing (the flower and the table of contents remain in place and not
> >> > > cut).
> >> > >
> >> > > I searched through the postings on the mailing list, and I found that
> >> > > somebody has had the same problem (in September 2005), and the solution
> >> > > was to update the geometry package of latex to the latest version (v
> 3.2).
> >> > > I have checked the version I have installed for such geometry
> package, and
> >> > > it is v 3.2 (the latest one posted on CTAN). So I don't know
> exactly what
> >> > > to do (except for using HA-prosper in the meantime, which works fine).
> >> > >
> >> > > Anybody any help?
> >> > >
> >> > > Thanks so much.
> >> > >
> >> > > Rafa
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Pedro J.S.B. Caridade, PhD
> > > Investigador Auxiliar
> > > Química Teórica & Computacional
> > > Instituto Interdiciplinar de Investigação
> > > Centro de Química, Universidade de Coimbra
>
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> Vienna Graduate School of Finance
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On 01/10/2011 12:06 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
powerdot Digest Sun, 09 Jan 2011 Volume: 06 Issue: 045
In This Issue:
[powerdot] Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Hel
[powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader -
[powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader -
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Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:04:01 -0500
From: Thomas Schneider <schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov>
Subject: [powerdot] Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Help!]
I'm using Acrobat 8.2.5 and my powerdot (1.3) displays are now showing
up in portrait mode instead of landscape. Of course this wrecks the
slide show. Has Acrobat changed? Has powerdot changed to account for
a change of Acrobat? Should I upgrade my powerdot? I didn't find
anything in the 2011 documentation indicating this.
I switched to
powerdot.cls 2010/12/18 v1.4e powerdot presentation class (HA,CE)
(only that file) and still have the same result. (Maybe that's
not enough to switch?)
Thanks,
Tom
Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
Molecular Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov
toms <at> alum.mit.edu (permanent)
http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:36:24 +0100
From: Carsten Vogel <lego <at> wh10.tu-dresden.de>
Subject: [powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Help!]
Am 10.01.2011 00:04, schrieb Thomas Schneider:
I'm using Acrobat 8.2.5 and my powerdot (1.3) displays are now showing
up in portrait mode instead of landscape.
Quickshoot:
Try \documentclass[landscape,pagesize,...]{...}
Cheers from Germany
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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:57:49 -0500
From: Thomas Schneider <schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov>
Subject: [powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader -
Carsten:
Quickshoot:
Try \documentclass[landscape,pagesize,...]{...}
Thanks for the nice suggestion .... it didn't change anything!
I'm using:
\documentclass[
landscape, % makes no difference
style=zen,hlsections,size=11pt,
]{powerdot}
It's still displayed portrait and cuts off the right side of the
slide.
I thought it might be that I'm avoiding autorotation:
ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None $fullname
but not using that flag did not fix the problem.
This is odd because about 6 months ago things worked just fine ...
Tom
Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory
Molecular Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov
toms <at> alum.mit.edu (permanent)
http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent)
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