Re: Fresobaldi landscape printing

[Peter Toye]

David,

Hmmm. Ghostscript doesn't seem to have an "upgrade" path, just a "download". Which I did and installed 9.27. But Fresco is still picking up 9.20. Any idea how to get Fresco to change its allegiance?

It might be that my 9.20 seems to be the 32-bit version, and I downloaded the 64-bit version which fits the OS better (windows Home 64 bit).

Best regards,

Peter
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Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 8:15:24 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> Peter Toye <address@hidden> writes:

>> David,

>> Thanks. It's GPL Ghostscript 9.20

> That's from 2016.  The changelog mentions

>     2016-09-20 09:03:31 -0700
>     Ray Johnston <address@hidden>
>     0e1153bf2d344044cd9fdfb7706f829b63348118

>         FitPage should not add in rotation if
> destination page is square.

>         If the PageSize was square, it would be
> treated as "not landscape",
>         but landscape pages in would be arbitrarily rotated.

>         Note this does not change the bahavior
> of PS or EPS page fitting.
>         TBD: Add an option to fit to a page and
> never rotate (FitPageNR)

>         Resource/Init/pdf_main.ps

> which sounds like GhostScript would rotate of
> its own accord.  I think
> we had some kind of fix for that.

> Oh yes:

> commit 84675bc536af363543bdae1fa422903a977e1ec8
> Author: Masamichi Hosoda <address@hidden>
> Date:   Thu Apr 27 21:18:41 2017 +0900

>     Issue 5126: Prevent Ghostscript's unwanted automatic page rotation
>    
>     Ghostscript is "too clever" to rotate pages automatically
>     with "majority decision".
>     This behavior can cause unwanted page rotation.
>    
>     This commit prevents such behavior
>     by adding option `-dAutoRotatePages=/None` to Ghostscript.

> That would be 2.19.60.  So it would seem like
> something does not work as
> intended here.

> Maybe that option is only supported in later
> GhostScript versions than
> what you have?