[texhax] Questions about page layout and dimension

[Yue Wu]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 09:20:17PM -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:
> On Wed, Mar  2, 2011 at 08:34 (+0800), Yue Wu wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:10:16AM -0400, Jim Diamond wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar  1, 2011 at 10:30 (+0800), Yue Wu wrote:
> 
> >>> Hi, list,
> 
> >>> I'm learning plain TeX, a few questions I meet is:
> 
> >>> 1.
> >>> I find that \special{landscape} can produce .pdf in landscape page
> >>> layout after going the routine TeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, it's fine enough
> >>> although the .dvi still isn't in landscape, any simple way, in plain
> >>> TeX's way?
> 
> >> Assuming you are using 8.5 x 11 paper (A4 paper or other sizes are
> >> left as an exercise to the diligent student :-):
> 
> >> \special{papersize=11in,8.5in}%
> >> \special{! /landplus90 true store}% Avoid seascape !  (PS only?)
> 
> >> I expect someone else will tell you that .dvi files don't really know
> >> anything about page sizes.
> 
> > Thanks, it work, but I find the following pages will become landscape
> > too, how to let it work for just current page?
> 
> Sorry, I didn't realize that you wanted to switch back and forth.
> 
> When you want to switch back to portrait, aside from changing tex's
> \hsize and \vsize, you should also do
> \special{papersize=8.5in,11in}%
> 
> My quick test with dvips produced results you might not like; with
> page 1 in landscape and page 2 in portrait the whole PS file is
> landscape, as is the whole PDF file created with ps2pdf.
> 
> 
> I'm guessing you will need someone who knows more about the dvi format
> and the appropriate \special{}s than me to do what you want.
> 

Thanks all the same, I know new things from you too :)

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Regards,
Yue Wu

Key Laboratory of Modern Chinese Medicines
Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine
China Pharmaceutical University
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