Re: SQR & .pdf formatting

[Ray Ontko <rayo@ONTKO.COM>]

David,

> Using a suggestion from this listserver, I am using Ghostscript to convert
> .ps files created by SQR into .pdf format for use with the Acrobat Reader.
>  However, I can not seem to format the page for landscape mode reports -
> they appear sideways in the gsview and Acrobat Reader (which makes for
> difficult reading!).  I tried reformatting the page size (switching lines
> and columns sizes) in SQR and creating the output file in portrait mode,
> but the output ends up being truncated.  Also, the define-printer section
> in SQR is unreadable by Ghostscript altogether so you have to use the old
> "define <space> printer which does not help.
>
> Any suggestions?

I think Acrobat Distiller does the same thing with landscape pages
(rotates them sideways).  I'm curious about the truncation problem.
I don't know Ghostscript well enough, but did you tell it to use
a different paper size also?

If you don't have Distiller, I'd be happy to run a test file
through our copy when I get a chance.  Or, you can get a copy of
Distiller for about $185 from PCZone or one of the other mail
order houses.

I'm hoping that someday we'll be able to say "-printer:pdf".

Ray
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