General ⇒ Rotate page when viewed on screen

[php1ic]

Hello,
I have rotated a figure containing two subfigures as required within a large document using the method below.

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\documentclass[a4paper]{article}

\usepackage{graphicx,rotating}
\usepackage{subfig}

\begin{document}

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\begin{sidewaysfigure}[htb]
\centering
\subfloat[a]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{windmill.eps}}
\subfloat[b]{\includegraphics[width=0.45\textwidth]{windmill.eps}}
\caption{fdsafdsfasdaf dasf saf dsaf ds f afdsa f}
\end{sidewaysfigure}

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\end{document}

As the figure takes up an entire page, I would like to make it so that when the whole document is view on screen (eg with acrobat reader or xpdf) the page is automatically rotated so the figures and caption are orientated correctly. Does anybody know how to do this?

To make the pdf I use Latex then do dvi->ps->pdf.

Thanks in advance.

[php1ic]

I've figures it out, and I don't understand the reason at all.

I wrote a script to save time which converts tex to pdf. Here are the exact commands I use:

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latex file.tex
dvips -Ppdf -ta4 file.dvi
ps2pdf14 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -sPAPERSIZE=a4 file.ps

running this, the page with the sideways figure isn't rotated when viewed on screen. However if I run the commands individually, it is?!

As I say I have absolutely no idea why this would be so, but my problem is solved. If anybody has any explanation or thoughts about this behaviour please post.

Thanks

EDIT: It seems I was wrong in blaming the script, it is the option -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer that stops the rotation on screen.