From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] psutils et al
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 14:43:50 +0000
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> I'm not sure whether managing the display orientation should be part
> of "page"'s job.  Judging from the presence of the "u" option, and by
> analogy with the way I seem to use real photos and sheets of paper,
> I'm inclined to think that it is.

well, it's certainly to do with the presentation end of the process
(given the postscript "%%Orientation: (Portrait|Landscape)" header)
however, i'm somewhat surprised there's not some way of specifying a
page transformation to ghostscript which would avoid the painful
process of doing it via bit manipulation of the displayed image...

from a brief glance at the documentation, a ghostscript driver can
specify an arbitrary transformation between user coords and device
coords, so i imagine it should be possible to tell the plan 9 driver to
rotate the page if the page orientation said so.

  rog.