Re: Sideways printing?

[Eric G . Miller]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 04:25:51PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> 
> Is there any way to get sideways printing (landscape)? I need this to
> print a4 envelopes.
> 
> Latex has a landscape option but it just alters the page size, not the
> orientation.

Use the graphicx package.  There's a \rotatebox{} macro.  It might take
some trickery to actually place it where you want. There's an excellent
write-up on graphics in latex available here:

   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps
   ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps
   ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps
   ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/tex-archive/info/epslatex.ps

   ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
   ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
   ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
   ftp://ctan.unsw.edu.au/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf
   ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/tex-archive/info/epslatex.pdf

It has more info than the documentation for graphicx that comes with
TeTeX.

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