<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:07 AM, Johannes Meixner wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">...<br></font>The more often I read the Adobe DSC specification regarding<br>"%%Orientation" (page 43)<br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br>A portrait orentation indicates that the longest edge of the<br>paper is parallel to the vertical (y) axis. A landscape<br>orentation indicates that the longest edge of the paper<br>is parallel to the horizontal (x) axis.<br>------------------------------------------------------------------<br>the more I get confused about what this should actually mean.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yeah, one of the guys I work with at Apple used to be at Adobe and even he says the comment is confusing.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Assume the content of a page has<br>%%BoundingBox 10 15 580 780<br>it means the content is from left 10 to right 580 on the x axis<br>and from bottom 15 to top 780 on the y axis.<br><br>To place this content "inside" of a A4 (width 595, height 842)<br>or Letter (width 612, height 792) paper, the longest edge<br>of the paper must be parallel to the vertical (y) axis so that<br>%%Orientation Portrait<br>seems to be mandatory in this case according to what the Adobe DSC<br>specification reads.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Except that BoundingBox and PageBoundingBox refer the the rectangle containing the content, not the orientation a human would use to view the content. The Orientation comment tells the viewing application whether the content needs to be rotated for *viewing*, not for printing...</div><div><br></div><div>To make matters worse, there are applications that generate bad bounding boxes, such that the bounding box is in landscape while the content is actually rotated to portrait. There isn't a whole lot we can do about that... :(</div><div><br></div><div>
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