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] Support request for /Rotate in pdf

2015-11-10 Thread Hironobu Yamashita
Hi Zdenek, Many thanks to your clear explanation. > ... And now there is a question: the author of a PDF > document intended a physical orientation which > differs from the orientation intended for a screen > preview. If such a PDF is included into another PDF, > which one should be used, the phy

Re: [XeTeX] Support request for /Rotate in pdf

2015-11-10 Thread Zdenek Wagner
Hi, the difference is that pdftex does everything in one step, xetex prepares a \special for xdvipdfmx. In order to implement /Rotate you have to read the page directory. I do not remember the whole PDF reference but I think that it is possible to have /Rotate for the whole document and /Rotate fo

Re: [XeTeX] Support request for /Rotate in pdf

2015-11-10 Thread Philip Taylor
Hironobu Yamashita wrote: > I'd like to hear some other opinions. > Has anyone ever had same kind of questions? Yes, I agree with Hironobu-san. For a "normal" user, the simplest way to rotate a PDF is to open it in Adobe Acrobat, ask the latter to "Document / rotate pages", select the appropri