The output of eps fig is rotated by itself

Question

I am trying to use an .eps figure for my paper, but the problem comes when I got weird output.

I use this command:

\begin{figure}[!ht]
\centering
  \includegraphics[scale=0.2]{A.eps}
\end{figure}  

But on the output, the figure is rotated by itself. A.eps is a landscape figure, but it came out as a portrait figure.

I tried to rotate it so it might be come out as I want, but it did not work.

Can anybody help me, please?

Answer 1

From comments to a different answer, I gather that you want to include plots generated with gnuplot.

Gnuplot comes with many different "terminals", which are output filters that generate different file formats. A common one is postscript (which generates postscript files), or png for generating PNG raster images. If you build your plots interactively from a gnuplot command line, you are probably using the wxt terminal, which outputs the plots to your screen.

For including gnuplot plots in LaTeX documents, there are other terminals that are better suited than the terminals which generate standalone image files, because they let LaTeX take care of typesetting the text:

• The epslatex terminal generates two files: One .tex file that includes all of the text and numbers, and one .eps file that includes the graphics.
  To use it, do the following: After setting up your plot as usual (by using a sequence of setup commands or by loading a gnuplot file) issue the command set terminal epslatex color at the gnuplot> prompt; then set out "filename.tex"; replot (or just plot followed by the function, if that is all you need); and finally set out without a file name, which closes the files. You have now generated the .tex and .eps files.
  In your LaTeX document, you just include the graph using \input{filename}, the .eps file will be included automatically. If you want a bigger font size, just use \large{\input{filename}} instead.

• The tikz terminal generates a .tex file that contains TikZ code to generate the graph directly in LaTeX.
  To use it, you use set terminal tikz, after that the procedure is identical to that for the epslatex terminal. In your LaTeX document you must also load the gnuplot-lua-tikz package.

Here's a complete example using the epslatex terminal:
In gnuplot:

gnuplot> set terminal epslatex color
Terminal type set to 'epslatex'
Options are '   leveldefault color blacktext        dashed dashlength 1.0 linewidth 1.0 butt noclip        palfuncparam 2000,0.003        noheader "" 11 '
gnuplot> set out "epslatexfile.tex"
gnuplot> set samples 400, 400
gnuplot> plot [-10:10] real(sin(x)**besj0(x))
gnuplot> set out

A minimal LaTeX document to include the output from gnuplot could look like this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\centering
\input{epslatexfile}
\end{document}

Yielding this output:

Answer 2

Just a general comment from someone who doesn't use LaTeX often:

graphicx with its \includegraphics is generally preferable to epsfig and PDF is generally to be preferred over EPS.

\includegraphics allows you to leave the image format open in the LaTeX source code, and to pick PDF instead of EPS by using pdflatex instead of latex (once you've converted your images to PDF). This has saved me a few headaches in the past.

Answer 3

I just had similar issues with rotating eps figures. Check out this thread: On Ubuntu 10.10 with texlive-full installed, xelatex is rotating my figures 90 degrees counterclockwise

Answer 4

If you are using dvipdf then try making your command line

dvipdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None myfile.dvi