Marjorie Roome via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: >> How does one print a PDF with landscape orientattion? >> > Isn't the page orientation used encoded in the pdf? > > To change it, other than by shrinking the page down so it fits on the > paper in landscape orientation I think you would need to use a pdf > editor to reflow the content. > > If you have a document or image that you are converting to a pdf then > if you format the document or image landscape then the exported pdf > will also be landscape.
Yes, the PDF is a complete description of a number of pages. It is possible to change some things by pre-pending some Postscript to change the meaning of some verbs, though it’s so long (couple of decades) since I last fiddled at this level that I can’t remember the details. So you could turn pages around (rotate the content by 90˚), but that won’t reflow any text/re-arrange the contents. One trick I do recall doing was where we printed inbound faxes on our SCO OpenServer system at a previous job. I changed the meaning of the “showpage” operator so that instead of just printing the currently imaged page, it would add a header to the page with key details (date, time, number, etc) and then print the imaged page. At the same place I also did a custom text-ps script, adding in options to use some of the printer specific features we had on our printers - like doing A3 landscape on a laser instead of printing to the old green lined fanfold. Simon _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
