Re: [hylafax-users] hello everybody & one landscape/portrait question

["Bruce Whittaker" <bwhittak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whoops.... my apologies....

You asked about PDF and my response really concerns PCL  - please ignore everything I said......

although the concept would most likely still hold for PDF - just the escaped characters should change.

One thing you could try to determine the orientation codes would be to get a blank PDF page and save it as landscape. Save it under a new filename as portrait and compare the differences - with any luck you'll find it's just a couple of characters changing....

Again sorry about that - there are just too many damned acronyms in this world *grin*

Good luck with your problem....

Bruce Whittaker,
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"Laurent CELLA" <lcella@xxxxxxxxx> 06/05/2004 23:03

To:        <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bruce Whittaker" <bwhittak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: [hylafax-users] hello everybody & one landscape/portrait question

Thanx a lot for ur kind response and  idea Bruce:)
 
However i have some problems with ur escape  caracters.
I found a list with hexa codes  there:
http://www.manualy.sk/navody/pcl3.htm
 
but i cant find any of the codes editing any of the  pdf i opened (using ultraedit)
I tried it also with those files converted to  postscript [i am total newbie with those files so i made a try] :  idem.
 
does it came from the fact those tags would be not  mandatory or anything else ?
could it came from any encryption of pdf  
 
do you know how to do the same manipulating  postscript files ? :p
 
thank alots.
 
Laurent
 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From:  Bruce  Whittaker 
To: hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx 
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:16  AM
Subject: Re: [hylafax-users] hello  everybody & one landscape/portrait question


Hi back at ya !  

Gosh - with Battle Hammers and Sumotori  flying around - it sounds like you have some heavy duty problems on you hands  

If you have PDF documents and you  want to convert them all to the one layout (ie, portrait ) - you need to write  a small program to convert the PDF parper orientations to what you want. I  have written one in C to force PDF documents to print to a specified tray and  this could easily be adapted to force the paper orientation- give me a yell if  you want a copy. 

In short - you  need to convert an 'Esc&l1O" to an 'Esc&l0O" wherever you find it in  the document. 

Cheers,  

Bruce Whittaker,
CASS  Support,
Extension  34193
External     (02) 9269  4193.
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"Laurent CELLA"  <lcella@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: hylafax-users-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx   05/05/2004 19:02

To:         <hylafax-users@xxxxxxxxxxx>         cc:                   Subject:        [hylafax-users] hello  everybody & one landscape/portrait  question

First of all I want to say hello to every active  user of the  mailing list :) 
   
I am a beginner using hyla-fax and i  have my  first question there. 
  
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i need  to submit pdf files using the sendfax  command. 
  
The  problem is some of my files contains pages that  are faxed in landscape (  as the original page are ) and i want to know - if  possible -  
if i can configure something in the   hyla-fax process to make the fax server automaticaly rotate some of  the  pages, those wich deserve to be rotated. 
  
As a  first step, I would like to be able to rotate  the whole document without  checking each individual page. 
  
I 've found a first idea  wich appears too heavy for  me (using a battle hammer to smash a fly  ) : 
- using pdf2ps.  
- using ghostscript -sDEVICE=bbox command to  know  boundaries of the ps output ( to know if the pictures should be  furthermore  rotated ) 
-  converting the postcript output to a serie of  tiff files. (using gs   
- using another tool to rotate all  those  pictures 
- submiting all  the tif pictures to hylafax  server 
  
this "solution" not yet  implemented appears to me  as heavy as a sumotori diving in a  swimming pool. 
  
Anybody have  a better idea ? :p 
  
  
Laurent.  
  
  
  
  



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