[texhax] Landscape orientation with plain TeX

Hartmut Henkel hartmut_henkel at gmx.de
Tue Sep 7 18:43:16 CEST 2004


On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> This is very clear, but we should need in plain TeX a command similar to the
> LaTeX command
> \rotatebox#1#2.
> Any hint to build such a command?

When you create the document with \pdfpagewidth > \pdfpageheight (and
\hsize > \vsize) in pdftex, acroread and xpdf will show it in Landscape
format and automatically rotate it for printing, so you don't need to
state the rotation in the PDF file.

Regards, Hartmut



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