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Originally Posted by japinder
The 'grid' option, as well as 'cbox' (with s qualifier), are not playing well with the -rt 90 option to rotate the output to landscape mode. The text lines seem to get cut-off & redistributed among adjacent pages. If I remove the -rt 90 option to rotate to landscape, hoping to do it in another pass, the output is somewhat squarish, with the same length as well as width, not a good candidate for landscape, will need another split, or will leave huge margins on the side when rotated.
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It helps if you send examples of exact command lines so that I can see precisely what you did (and in what order you put the command-line parameters, since that is sometimes important, e.g. when specifying multiple crop boxes). I'm glad you're trying lots of options, though. That's how you figure things out.
I think the main issue is that
-rt 90 isn't really intended for what you're using it for. It is intended to be used for source files which are incorrectly in landscape mode (e.g. if when you view them on a standard PC reader they come up sideways). That is, it rotates the source file before doing any other processing. So if you have an 8.5 x 11-inch source file, it will be rotated and treated as if it is now an 11 x 8.5-inch source file by all the other processing. That means your grid argument now has to be
2x1x5 instead of
1x2x5. Similarly, your
-cbox arguments need to change. Fortunately, there's a much simpler option, which is to use
-ls rather than
-rt 90. This acts as if you want to turn your reader on its side to read the document, so it fits the source file to the sideways (or landscape) dimensions of your e-reader screen and turns the output page on its side. That's what you want to be using instead of
-rt 90. (The
-ls option is turned on by default when you use
-mode fw).