Comment 25 for bug 1242678

The issue reported there seems to be also what makes evince fails to render some eps files on e.g recent Ubuntu versions

That has been reported on
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710957
https://bugs.launchpad.net/libspectre/+bug/1242678
http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694979

The ghostscript bugs has details

"...
Basically, this isn't a bug. If you want to rotate an EPS you absolutely should NOT be doing so by using /Orientation, which is a media selection parameter. You should instead use '90 rotate' or similar to set up the CTM before you render the EPS."

@Marek: I tried your patch on some of the files from the Ubuntu bug, e.g https://bugs.launchpad.net/libspectre/+bug/1242678/+attachment/3886169/+files/test.eps ... it fixes the "nothing is displayed" but the orientation seems wrong (rotated from 90° compared to gs and 180° compared to what portrait should be (e.g axis/labels are wrong)). Not sure if that's a bug in the documents or in the change though