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+orientation 1.0 (January 10, 2021)
+Set page orientation for dvips/Ghostscript
+Daniel Benjamin Miller <dbmiller@dbmiller.org>
+
+When using dvips with Ghostscript, the various PDF auto-rotation modes may
+sometimes need some tweaking. Using the auto-rotation feature of Ghostscript
+may suffice in most cases: it sets the orientation of the pages of the PDF
+according to text direction (either per-page or for the whole document).
+
+But sometimes we don't want this. For instance, Ghostscript may not obey
+the orientation set by geometry or other packages.
+
+We have eight commands available, in two categories.
+
+These commands orient the current page and all following pages:
+
+* \setportrait
+* \setlandscape
+* \setupsidedown
+* \setcounterlandscape
+
+These commands orient the current page only:
+
+* \thispageportrait
+* \thispagelandscape
+* \thispageupsidedown
+* \thispagecounterlandscape
+
+If you don't process your file with dvips and Ghostscript/ps2pdf, then don't
+expect any of these commands to do anything.
+
+Made available under the CC-Zero Dedication, 2021
+For more info: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/