[tex-k] landscape/seascape

[Dan.Gildea at cs.rochester.edu]

It has always bothered me that when I make slides using the
seminar package, they show up upside down in gv.

The dvips page at http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html 
gives instructions for fixing this problem by setting 
landplus90 to true.  But why isn't this the default
behavior?


Running latex and dvips -Ppdf on the following document

   \documentclass[semhelv,landscape]{seminar}
   
   \special{! TeXDict begin /landplus90{true}store end }
   \slidefontsizes{12}
   
   \begin{document}
   \begin{slide}
   test
   \end{slide}
   \end{document}

I get the following behavior with different viewers:

		w/o special	w/ special
ps	gv	upside-down	ok
	evince	sideways	sideways

after running ps2pdf I get:

pdf	gv	sideways	ok
	evince	ok		ok
	acroread ok		ok
	xpdf	ok 		ok

This is on fedora core 5: dvips 5.95a, gv 3.6.1, gs 8.15.2,
xpdf 3.01, evince 0.5.1, pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2.

Would it be safe to make 
 /landplus90 { true } def 
the default in the dvips init files?

thanks.