Rotating PDF landscape image for viewing
Eric Carter
I have a PDF document that was originally in the Word or Excel format.
Some of the pages are landscape. The trouble is, when you view it in PDF
format the landscape pages are rendered sideways on the screen. Is it
possible to indicate that a particular page is to be shown rotated on the
screen, but printed in the original landscape? Thanks in advance!
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Eric Carter
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"The truth shall make you strange."
Hilmar Schlegel
In message 24 Oct 1996 14:08:01 GMT,
"Eric Carter" <76702...@compuserve.com> writes:
> I have a PDF document that was originally in the Word or Excel format.
> Some of the pages are landscape. The trouble is, when you view it in
> PDF format the landscape pages are rendered sideways on the screen. Is
> it possible to indicate that a particular page is to be shown rotated on
> the screen, but printed in the original landscape? Thanks in advance!
>
As far as I know there is presently no way to do that elegantly as it is
announced to be possible in the next PDF-version. Now remains to use
pass-through PS code to rotate a page viewed in landscape to be printed in
portrait.
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Aandi Inston
"Eric Carter" <76702...@compuserve.com> wrote:
>I have a PDF document that was originally in the Word or Excel format.
>Some of the pages are landscape. The trouble is, when you view it in PDF
>format the landscape pages are rendered sideways on the screen. Is it
>possible to indicate that a particular page is to be shown rotated on the
>screen, but printed in the original landscape? Thanks in advance!
Open the document in Acrobat Exchange, use Edit->Pages->Rotate then
File->Save As (not Save).
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"Eric Carter" <76702...@compuserve.com> wrote:
>I have a PDF document that was originally in the Word or Excel format.
>Some of the pages are landscape. The trouble is, when you view it in PDF
>format the landscape pages are rendered sideways on the screen. Is it
>possible to indicate that a particular page is to be shown rotated on the
>screen, but printed in the original landscape? Thanks in advance!
That's a real problem that I also had several times. Ok. you can rotate it
while printing, you can try to rotate the Postscript (when you generate .pdf
via .ps -> Distiller -> .pdf). But I think a viewer should be able to rotate
pages in 90 degree steps. IMHO that's a big minus for the Acroreader.
werner frank
SysKonnect
Berthold K.P. Horn
"Eric Carter" <76702...@compuserve.com> wrote:
I think its a question of operating system support for linear transformations.
Windows 3.1, Windows 95 do not support this directly, so youd' have
to use the ATM backdoor API to implement it and then you'd be stuck
with transforming non-text material also `by hand'.
Windows NT does support transformations.
Maybe sometime we will see an Acroread that makes use of this capability :=)
werner frank
SysKonnect
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Mark Poston
If you are using Word or Excel, PDF Writer may be a better solution.
Although, not having tried it in Word, Lotus WordPro can print Portrait and
Landscape to PDF straight away ... no need to rotate in Exchange.
I've just tried it in Word and it works!!
Hope this helps
Mark POston
Eric Carter <76702...@compuserve.com> wrote in article
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> I have a PDF document that was originally in the Word or Excel format.
> Some of the pages are landscape. The trouble is, when you view it in
PDF
> format the landscape pages are rendered sideways on the screen. Is it
> possible to indicate that a particular page is to be shown rotated on the
> screen, but printed in the original landscape? Thanks in advance!
>
>
Eric Carter
Thanks for your suggestions, but I need to do this programatically and I
know how to rotate the PDF
files using Acrobat Exchange as an OLE server. The problem turns out to
be how do I know if the
original document is portrait or landscape under the circumstances, which
ain't obvious.
-Eric
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Eric Carter
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"The truth shall make you strange."
Mark Poston <ma...@ole.prestel.co.uk> wrote in article
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