Variable orientation
Posted: 20 May 2010 12:49 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Hi, I’m evaluating PDFClerk for our company as a more cost effective PDF editor for staff to use when concatenating PDFs primarily. They often have to combine several PDFs, often with differing printing orientations. For instance, there might be a written report created in Word, followed by some statistical data from an Excel spreadsheet. The Word document will be in portrait mode, and the spreadsheet will be in landscape.

When viewing these documents in a PDF viewer, it is preferable to have them display in landscape mode. But when printing this results in the document being printed across the middle third of an A4 page at reduced size. So in order to print the document it needs to be re-exported with the landscape pages in true landscape mode.

I would like to be able to send out on document, that when viewed on a computer, or web page displays in a human friendly orientation, but alters the orientation when printed.

Why? Because some people prefer to print, and some are happy to read on screen. If I have to only send one version out though, it will have to be the print friendly version, and this kind of forces people to print the document, which is less green.

Can anyone suggest a way of achieving this?

Thanks

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Posted: 20 May 2010 04:15 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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I don’t know if the PDF specification provides for this (and I can’t check it right now). But in both PDFClerk and Preview, when you print you can turn on the option to auto rotate pages. This will have the effect you’re after. You prepare the document for online viewing, and then it is up to the user’s reader to allow printing with auto rotation. Mac users are therefore ok, because Preview is available on all Mac OS X systems. Don’t know about Windows, Linux and other systems.

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