R help - Dec 2000 - Landscape problems with ps2pdf [summary]

Since I sent my original question last week, this is one of two suggestions
that worked.  Using Adobe Acrobat, as suggested by Professor Ripley, was
very satisfactory, but required that I use multiple platforms to make the
conversion to PDF (from Linux to Windows).  

The solution by Peter Adorjan (included below), also worked very well, and
can be carried out on any platform using tools available in ghostscript
(ps2pdf) and psutils (pstops, which can be downloaded from
http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/ajcd/psutils/ in source form, or from the usual
sites for Linux binaries).

Thanks for the responses.

Matt Nelson
> From: Peter Adorjan [mailto:adorjan at epigenomics.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 6:09 AM
> 
> hi, 
> i have had the same problem, and following trick seems to 
> work generally
> (independent who produced the ps file).
> 
> pstops "0R(0,21cm)" myfile.prn > myfile.ps
> ps2pdf -g8420x5950 myfile.ps

Original Message:

I have created a multipage PostScript file using the postscript() function
with horizontal = TRUE to produce my plots in landscape.  I intended to
convert that entire file to PDF using ps2pdf to have the plots available for
a presentation.  Unfortunately, the resulting PDF document is rotated -90
degrees.

I have found dozens of references to this kind of problem with ps2pdf
online, but no effective workaround.  I would really appreciate any
suggestions.

I am using R Version 1.1.1 on RedHat Linux 6.2.  I have upgraded to
ghostscript 6.01 (in an attempt to correct the problem). 
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On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 06:32:53AM -0500, Matthew Nelson
wrote:
> Since I sent my original question last week, this is one of two suggestions
> that worked.  Using Adobe Acrobat, as suggested by Professor Ripley, was
> very satisfactory, but required that I use multiple platforms to make the
> conversion to PDF (from Linux to Windows).  
...and epstopdf (??Imagemagic??) does not work? I'm quite sure I recently
used this with pdflatex.
p.

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