bulia byak wrote:

read the discussion there and leave your comments

I hope I'm not violating the netiquette for this list by duplicating here what I wrote on sourceforge -- here it is for anyone who is just following the discussion via the mailing list:

I'm having a hard time understanding what's been going on in this discussion, so what I say here may be based on a partial or complete misunderstanding. Like dlehn, I am using Inkscape to make images for inclusion in LaTeX, and my images are often wider than they are tall, e.g., 5 cm wide and 3 cm tall. It seems strange to me that Inkscape would, without warning, rotate my image by 90 degrees simply because it's wider than it is tall, but that's what Inkscape 0.40 is doing. This behavior is unexpected and hard to understand -- I had no idea that it was happening because of the proportions of my bounding box. I'm also wondering what, at this point, is considered to be the correct, documented behavior of Inkscape. Is the rotation meant to be a temporary thing until landscape mode is better supported in Inkscape, or is it meant to be something that would be a permanent behavior of Inkscape? I also don't understand what workaround I can use if I don't want the rotation. It seems as though there is no possible way to generate postscript output that is *not* rotated. On the other hand, for someone who *wants* his postscript to print sideways, because there is no other way to fit it on the page, there is a clear workaround: use Inkscape to rotate the picture.