[softwarelist] Re: O-Pro's future

On 13 Jul, Dr Peter Young  wrote in message
  <f39f55be4f.pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On 13 Jul 2008  Chris Manning <cgm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> [snip problem with rotated pages in pdf files]
> 
> > PrintPDF will do this, but its operation seems to be somewhat
> > haphazard (sometimes it passes about 200 bytes of parameters to
> > GhostScript, sometimes nearly a thousand), possibly requiring the
> > program to be quit and reloaded after the options are selected and
> > saved to disc.

Does it?  It certainly wasn't designed to work that way, so if it does so
for you, I'd prefer to receive a bug report direct rather than via an
unrelated mailing list.

The number of parameters passed to GhostScript depends entirely on the
options specified for the conversion: if options don't need to be passed,
they won't be.  Clearly, setting a custom optimization will require the
most options to be passed.

> > I'm afraid I ran out of enthusiasm for experimentation once I had
> > persuaded it to work, but
> 
> >    AutoPageRotation: 0
> 
> > seems to be the required magic incantation.
> 
> Interesting, but where does one make that incantation?

One doesn't need to make it anywhere, as PrintPDF makes it for one.

In the Save PDF dialogue box (the one that opens after the print job has
completed), open the Optimization pop-up menu and select 'Custom...'.  The
page rotation settings can be specified in the 'Auto page rotation' box at
the bottom.

The settings can be made the default via PrintPDF's Choices dialogue in a
similar way.

I think Chris is advocating manually messing with PrintPDF's options file. 
I don't recommend this, unless you need to change any of the 'hidden'
options that don't appear in the user interface; it is *very* unlikely
that normal users will ever need to do this.

-- 
Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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