Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-10 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi all, if I remember everything well, /Rotate is a PDF operator that rotates a page. /AutoRotatePages is a distiller operator. Its value is used when converting PS to PDF. The idea behind it is that a portrait document may contain a few landscape pages with tables and/or figures. If rotating is e

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-09 Thread Hironobu Yamashita
Dear Reinhard, > Dear Hironobu, > what do you want to rotate? An included graphic file or the whole > document? > Hironobu, can you tell my why xdvipdfmx has to understand /Rotate? I meant: "User-intended pdf figure rotation" is suppressed in xdvipdfmx. That's a big problem. > And I'm convince

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-09 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 2015-11-07 at 09:39:49 +0900, Hironobu Yamashita wrote: > > ... It would seem, from what Hironobu-san > > has said, that neither XeTeX not (x)dvipdfm(x) support the /rotate (or > > /Rotate) primitive that Adobe Acrobat inserts when one asks it to rotate > > a PDF ... > > > > ** Phil. >

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-06 Thread Hironobu Yamashita
> ... It would seem, from what Hironobu-san > has said, that neither XeTeX not (x)dvipdfm(x) support the /rotate (or > /Rotate) primitive that Adobe Acrobat inserts when one asks it to rotate > a PDF ... > > ** Phil. That's right. And it's not only Adobe Acrobat that inserts /Rotate (uppercase) i

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-06 Thread Philip Taylor
Dear Reinhard -- Reinhard Kotucha wrote: > Dear Phil, > it's important to know that keywords in PostScript are case > sensitive. The name of the procedure you need in order to rotate > figures is /rotate (lower case). This is supported by any PostScript > interpreter. OK, I was not thinking sp

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-06 Thread Reinhard Kotucha
On 2015-11-05 at 05:46:41 +, Philip Taylor wrote: > Hironobu-san : > > > Philip's problem is pdf inclusion. Current (x)dvipdfmx does not > > support /Rotate at all, so inclusion of pdf with /Rotate command > > fails. Yes, Adobe Acrobat (and Preview.app in OS X) adds /Rotate > > command

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-05 Thread Philip Taylor
Hironobu YAMASHITA wrote: > I ​think this ​may be some kind of faq in SX: > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79661/pdfs-included-by-xelatex-are-rotated > > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/66522/xelatex-rotating-my-figures-in-beamer > I hope some expert of XeTeX can answer more

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-05 Thread Hironobu YAMASHITA
> But that is probably a question for the XeTeX list, and not relevant to > the TeX Live discussion here. I agree. (removed tex-live list from recipient) Hmm, actually I'm not very familiar with XeTeX, but at least I can say that pdf is read by both XeTeX and xdvipdfmx independently. As far as I

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor
Hironobu-san : > Philip's problem is pdf inclusion. Current (x)dvipdfmx does not support > /Rotate at all, so inclusion of pdf with /Rotate command fails. > Yes, Adobe Acrobat (and Preview.app in OS X) adds /Rotate command in PDF > rotation, so these PDFs are out-of-support by (x)dvipdfmx. Than

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-04 Thread Hironobu YAMASHITA
Hi Philip, 2015-11-05 14:03 GMT+09:00 Philip Taylor : > I don't understand the details of this at all, Akira-san, but would it > explain why, after I had carefully rotated a PDF figure by 90% in Adobe > Acrobat, I found that that the rotation was lost when that same > (rotated) figure was importe

Re: [XeTeX] [tex-live] -dAutoRotatePages=/None in the distiller_template

2015-11-04 Thread Philip Taylor
I don't understand the details of this at all, Akira-san, but would it explain why, after I had carefully rotated a PDF figure by 90% in Adobe Acrobat, I found that that the rotation was lost when that same (rotated) figure was imported using XeTeX's \XeTeXpdffile ? I found had to explicitly rotat