Bug 53971

Summary:	rotatebox is not working with dvi files
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Olivier Baudron <olivier.baudron>
Component:	tetex	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	AlMa0, tao
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Description Olivier Baudron 2001-09-24 19:36:33 UTC

Consider the following file 'bug.tex':

% --- begin testcase ---
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\rotatebox{90}{Hello}
\end{document}
% --- end testcase ---

And make dvi and ps files:

$ latex bug
$ dvips -o bug.ps bug.dvi

The result is that the page displayed by 'xdvi bug.dvi' does not rotate the
box with the word "Hello". However, 'gv bug.ps' works fine.

My linux box has almost all its packages updated to the latest rawhide
version, in particular:

tetex*-1.0.7-29
ghostscript-6.51-13
ghostscript-fonts-5.50-4

Comment 1 Olivier Baudron 2001-11-04 05:27:19 UTC

The problem persists with the latest rawhide packages:
tetex*-1.0.7-35
ghostscript-6.51-16

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2002-01-10 10:05:00 UTC

Since PostScript and PDF output is fine, I don't really see a pressing need to 
fix xdvi.

Comment 3 AlMa 2023-11-21 11:13:35 UTC

Though the issue is not pressing for me, it is still an issue that comes up for me every once in a while (e.g., cf. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/701816/draftwatermark-picks-up-italics-from-the-top-of-the-next-page-and-produces-posts).  Personally and subjectively, I would welcome if xdvi understands the rotation command from Postscript.