If I understand your explanation, the orientation is not to specify
that the desired layout of the output, but rather to state how existing
pages are already laid out, and that this parameter is only used as a
hint to number-up so that it does proper rotation for 2-up. If that
is the case, why not just invent some more number-up values, e.g.
2-up-landscape. Then 2-up means 2-up-portrait.
Bob Herriot
> From walker at dazel.com Fri Jul 18 13:19:02 1997
>> At 12:41 PM 7/18/97 -0700, Robert Herriot wrote:
> >
> >> From rdebry at us.ibm.com Fri Jul 18 10:39:24 1997
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Orientation (portrait or landscape)
> >
> >This is suitable for conversion, e.g. text to PostScript but not
> >for printing PostScript directly. We dropped it when we dropped
> >all text conversion attributes, under the assumption that we would
> >not specify attributes that deal with conversion issues.
>> I disagree that `orientation' is not useful for printing PostScript
> directly... remember that we also support `number-up'. In the case
> of number-up > 1, orientation can be a very useful hint for ordering
> the logical pages on a physical page. If you do not believe me, then
> apply some naive number-up code to a portrait and a landscape document,
> and look at the results.
>> This is admittably on the low 20% end of the solution scale, but it *is*
> important as a hint if you are really going to support number-up processing.
>> ...walker
>> --
> Jim Walker <walker at dazel.com>
> System Architect/DAZEL Wizard
> DAZEL Corporation, Austin, TX
>>