Re: [MiKTeX] Landscape mode from YAP?

[Ulrike F. <li...@ni...>]

am Montag, 30. Juli 2007 um 21:45 schrieb Alan Ristow:

>>> At any rate, the few times I've needed to explicitly set the page
>>> dimensions, adding the following to my preamble has worked:
>>>
>>> \AtBeginDvi{\special{papersize=3D\the\paperwidth,\the\paperheight}}
>>=20
>> \usepackage{geometry}
>> should also do the trick.

> In my experience, geometry.sty doesn't explicitly put the page size in
> the dvi. It will change the margins appropriately for landscape, but=20
> when Yap opens the dvi it will display it on a portrait page with the=20
> text running off the right side of the page.

YAP needs a dvips-\special that sets the papersize. So if you are
using geometry you must add the driver (it won't do any harm if you
are also making a pdf with pdflatex):
\usepackage[dvips]{geometry} or \usepackage[dvipdfm]{geometry}

The main drawback in using the dvips option of geometry is that in the
landscape case it also adds another postscript special
(\AtBeginDvi{\special{! /landplus90 true store}}) and so YAP tries to
switch to dvips render method.

--=20
Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen
Ulrike Fischer
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