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From: "Vladimir Zhbanov (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-help AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-help] printing to landscape A4 without margins, how ?
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On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 12:57:38PM +0100, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
> Vladimir:
> ...
> > > If I do the obvious thing:
> > > 
> > >  gaf export -f ps -p iso_a4 -m 0 -o tt.ps tt.sch
> > > 
> > > I get a postscript file which shows fine in gv but at printout, the 
> > > content is rotated 90degrees relative the paper.
> > 
> > I have also stumbled upon the fact that different programs show
> > postscript/pdf files differently. Ghostscript is a preprocessing
> > program in Linux which outputs files to printer drivers (AFAICR),
> > so you can use it to see your page orientation before printing.
> > 
> > gs file.ps
> 
> That also gives me the wrong pickture.
> 
> > There are various scripts in the ghostscript distribution that can
> > help to get what you want. Probably in your case it is simplest to
> > use ghostscript itself to change page orientation. The
> > work-around command is:
> > 
> >   gs -o x.ps -sDEVICE=pswrite -c '<</Orientation 1>> setpagedevice' -f tt.ps
> 
> Thanks, but I already tried that.
> I also tried pstops '0L(210mm,00mm)' tt.ps x.ps, which would work, but
> gaf export seems to add a clipping region.

With no success? Strange if so. gaf exported ps was shown wrongly
in gs and on the printed page. After I applied the above
transformation, I printed the page and it was output as
expected (as it should be).

-- 
  Vladimir