[KLUG Members] StarOffice print-to-file landscape

[Adam Williams6]

Once upon a time there was a thread about printing Postscript from 
Star/Open Office to a file for the generation of PDF files.  The biter was 
that all print-to-file Postscript was in portrait no matter what one 
picked.  This made outputing things like presentations to file less than 
optimal.

With some help from a postscript guru I concoted the following recipe.

1. Print to file, postscript/portrait

2. Rotate the pages

pstops -w0 -h0 1:0R\(0in,8.5in\) rdbms.ps > rdbms-r.ps

3. Bake the postscript at 375 for 1.3 seconds

ps2pdf13 -g7920x6120  rdbms-r.ps rdbms.pdf

Now you have a landscape PDF file.

One appears to need ghostscript 6.x for this to work (~RH7.2) and ps2pdf13 
works, while straight ps2pdf does not.

Hopefully someone other than me will find this useful.

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