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 for separate pages, both can be used together. When including the file, /Rotate cannot be used, it is necessary to modify CTM.
There are official guidelines how to insert EPS, I do not know whether such guidelines exist for inclusion of PDF. If so, the guidelines should be followed. Zdeněk Wagner http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz 2015-11-10 16:09 GMT+01:00 Hironobu Yamashita <h.y.acetaminop...@gmail.com>: > 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 physical one or the > > one intended for screen preview? > > In my opinion, pdf with /Rotate should be rotated: > that means the orientation intended for screen > preview should be used. It seems pdfTeX is the > effective 'standard', and it intends to rotate such pdf, > and xdvipdfmx says "not supported yet" (it seems > the author of xdvipdfmx would like to rotate in the > future). > > > When making a PDF intended for inclusion I always > > prepare it in such a way that its natural orientation > > is the same as the physical orientation, I do not use > > /Rotate. > > That may be true (I also know "pre-treatment" of pdf > I've mentioned before works well), but *normal* users > who are not familiar with pdf specification would be > confused: > I carefully rotated pdf before inclusion, but XeTeX > does not understand. Why? > Related questions have appeared in StackExchange > several times as I mentioned, so it seems natural that > normal users cannot understand the reason why > XeTeX includes some pdf figures in different orientation > from what viewers show. > > Above is my personal opinion as a normal user. > I'd like to hear some other opinions. > Has anyone ever had same kind of questions? > > Thanks, > Hironobu > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex >
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