[gs-devel] rotating pages in a document to portrait

[Lee Howard]

I occasionally encounter documents (both Postscript and PDF, but usually 
they're PDF that have this "feature") where some pages are oriented 
portrait and some are oriented landscape.

For faxing all pages need to be oriented portrait.  How can I cause the 
output to be consistently done in portrait when the input document has a 
mix of portrait and landscape pages?

Typically this is the conversion process to produce the fax images:

gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER=true -sPAPERSIZE=letter 
-dFIXEDMEDIA -dBATCH -r203.29x98 -sOutputFile=out.tif in.pdf

However, the -dFIXEDMEDIA causes the landscape-oriented images to be 
chopped off on their right.  So we can do this:

gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER=true -sPAPERSIZE=letter 
-dPDFFitPage -dBATCH -r203.29x98 -sOutputFile=out.tif in.pdf

And this prevents the chopping from occurring, but the page is still not 
well-fitted to the page in that there's now a lot of white space at the top.

-dAutoRotatePages=/PageByPage doesn't seem to do anything in this case.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Lee.