R help - Feb 2002 - eps Portrait to pdf now rotated since gs6.5 --- why?

Hi list,
this question has probably been answered but I haven't found
a solution in the archives:
The older ghostscript gs5.50 (debian,stable) deals well with R-plots:
epstopdf yields pdfs with the same orientation as the eps-file.
But, since gs6.5 (or earlier) the dimension of the plot is interpreted: if 
x-width exceeds y-width even a Portrait-eps is rotated to Landscape.

A possible solution is to adjust the Orientation-Flag at eps-generation in R. 
Any ideas?
Thanks
 	Marcus
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Marcus Eger wrote:
> this question has probably been answered but I haven't found
> a solution in the archives:
> The older ghostscript gs5.50 (debian,stable) deals well with R-plots:
> epstopdf yields pdfs with the same orientation as the eps-file.
> But, since gs6.5 (or earlier) the dimension of the plot is interpreted: if
> x-width exceeds y-width even a Portrait-eps is rotated to Landscape.
>
> A possible solution is to adjust the Orientation-Flag at eps-generation in
R.
Are you following the advice in ?postscript and elsewhere?  That is to
produce portrait plots, and I have never seen a problem converting with gs
(currently 7.03).

However, R has long had a pdf device, so if you want pdf, why not generate
it in R?

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