10 Jan 2011 13:33
Portrait versus landscape mode
Arne Hallam <ahallam <at> iastate.edu>
2011-01-10 12:33:35 GMT
2011-01-10 12:33:35 GMT
In response to the comments about portrait versus landscape mode,
there was a similar issue a couple of years ago related to updates
of the operating system.
This was the resolution then.
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This was the resolution then.
Matthias,
I followed Pedro's instructions mindlessly, and it worked fine on my
Fedora 9.
Also, I have found that the Fedora updates tend to mess up Powerdot
badly, for reasons unknown to me (already with Fedora 8 I had the same
problem). I would not install any updates to Fedora, otherwise you may
risk having to re-install Fedora again to let Powerdot run (admittedly,
these problems may be caused by my lack of computer knowledge).
Rafa
On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 Mat_1 <at> gmx.net wrote:
All, I'm having exactly the same problem as Rafa (see his original post from May 2008 below). Pedro suggested to look for the config.ps bug at http://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html Apparently, there used to be a solution on this webpage in May 2008 (see Rafa's reply below). However, this website seems to have changed and I do not see any reference to a config.ps bug any more. I am working on a newly installed Fedora 9 machine and all my packages including texlive are up to date (I'm using the default Fedora repository). Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated. Many thanks, Matthias [powerdot] Re: Wrong orientation * From: Rafael de la Madrid <rafa <at> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> * To: powerdot <at> xxxxxxxxxxxxx * Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 16:10:52 -0400 (EDT) Hi Pedro, Thanks so much for your help, it worked! I spent the whole weekend trying to solve the problem, and you solved it for me in 2 seconds. Thanks a lot! Rafa On Mon, 19 May 2008, Pedro Jorge Caridade wrote:Fedora 9,Hi Rafa Have you check the config.ps bug of texlive2007? If not you need to check http://tug.org/texlive/bugs.html Pedro Rafael de la Madrid wrote:Hello, I'm having trouble with the orientation of the .ps (and .pdf) files produced by powerdot. I'm using the tex-live installed on Linuxmodeand what is happening is that the GV program thinks that the file is in portrait mode, although powerdot is producing an output in landscape3.2).(as it should). So when I do the ps2pdf conversion, I basically get the landscape mode cut into portrait, with the right-hand part of the slide missing (the flower and the table of contents remain in place and not cut). I searched through the postings on the mailing list, and I found that somebody has had the same problem (in September 2005), and the solution was to update the geometry package of latex to the latest version (vpackage, andI have checked the version I have installed for such geometryexactly whatit is v 3.2 (the latest one posted on CTAN). So I don't know-- Matthias Buehlmaier PhD Candidate Vienna Graduate School of Finance -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser-- Pedro J.S.B. Caridade, PhD Investigador Auxiliar Química Teórica & Computacional Instituto Interdiciplinar de Investigação Centro de Química, Universidade de Coimbrato do (except for using HA-prosper in the meantime, which works fine). Anybody any help? Thanks so much. Rafa
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powerdot Digest Sun, 09 Jan 2011 Volume: 06 Issue: 045 In This Issue: [powerdot] Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Hel [powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - [powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 18:04:01 -0500 From: Thomas Schneider <schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov> Subject: [powerdot] Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Help!] I'm using Acrobat 8.2.5 and my powerdot (1.3) displays are now showing up in portrait mode instead of landscape. Of course this wrecks the slide show. Has Acrobat changed? Has powerdot changed to account for a change of Acrobat? Should I upgrade my powerdot? I didn't find anything in the 2011 documentation indicating this. I switched to powerdot.cls 2010/12/18 v1.4e powerdot presentation class (HA,CE) (only that file) and still have the same result. (Maybe that's not enough to switch?) Thanks, Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov toms <at> alum.mit.edu (permanent) http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:36:24 +0100 From: Carsten Vogel <lego <at> wh10.tu-dresden.de> Subject: [powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Help!] Am 10.01.2011 00:04, schrieb Thomas Schneider:I'm using Acrobat 8.2.5 and my powerdot (1.3) displays are now showing up in portrait mode instead of landscape.Quickshoot: Try \documentclass[landscape,pagesize,...]{...} Cheers from Germany ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:57:49 -0500 From: Thomas Schneider <schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov> Subject: [powerdot] Re: Powerdot display is wrong in Acrobat Reader - Carsten:Quickshoot: Try \documentclass[landscape,pagesize,...]{...}Thanks for the nice suggestion .... it didn't change anything! I'm using: \documentclass[ landscape, % makes no difference style=zen,hlsections,size=11pt, ]{powerdot} It's still displayed portrait and cuts off the right side of the slide. I thought it might be that I'm avoiding autorotation: ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None $fullname but not using that flag did not fix the problem. This is odd because about 6 months ago things worked just fine ... Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 schneidt <at> mail.nih.gov toms <at> alum.mit.edu (permanent) http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent) ------------------------------ End of powerdot Digest V6 #45 *****************************
-- with all thy getting get understanding---Proverbs 4:7. The gentle art of being gentle---of kindness and forgiveness, sensitivity and thoughtfulness and generosity and humility and good old-fashioned love---have gone out of fashion. Ironically, everyone is demanding their rights, and this demand is so shrill that it destroys one of the most basic rights, if we can put it like that: the right, or at least the longing and hope, to have a peaceful, stable, secure, and caring place to live, to be, to learn, and to flourish---N.T. Wright. In the wildness of speculation it has been suggested (of course more in jest than in earnest),that Europe ought to grow its corn in America, and devote itself solely to manufactures and commerce, as the best sort of division of the labour of the globe---Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population Book III, Chapter XII. Arne Hallam College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 237 Catt Hall Iowa State University Ames, IA 50011 ahallam <at> iastate.edu Work: 515-294-5861 FAX: 515-294-1303 Home: 515-292-8739
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