How to rotate an image in gs

Question

How can I rotate an image with ghostscript? I am visualizing eps to screen. I am using the command:

gs image.eps

You might want to give [pdfjam](https://stackoverflow.com/a/18373572/562769) from texlive a try as well — Martin Thoma, Sep 07 '20 at 08:55

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 19 '12 at 21:12

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try this way:

gs -dEPSCrop -c "<</Orientation 1>> setpagedevice" -f input.eps -c quit

P.S this code snippet come from this post in the rhinocerus forum.

answered Dec 19 '12 at 21:12

andcoz

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I have never understood what is '-c quit' for – simona Jan 09 '13 at 15:00
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@simona, "-c" executes a postscript command. The last "-c" option in the example executes "quit" command and ends the postscript elaboration. If you omit it, you'll obtain a ghostscript prompt waiting for a command. – andcoz Jan 11 '13 at 21:49

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 24 '16 at 19:08

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A bit more modern Ghostscript

Newer Ghostscript versions come with the much improved eps2write device.

gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=eps2write \
  -sOutputFile=output.eps \
  -c "<</Orientation 3>> setpagedevice" \
  -f input.eps

The -dSAFER option keeps thing safe, prohibiting the input Ghostscript from performing arbitrary file read/write operations.

edited Sep 24 '16 at 19:08

bufh

answered Jan 19 '16 at 20:23

Serge Stroobandt