> Is it possible to do the same thing with pdf? Yes, it is, if someone's going to implement it. Another question is if it makes sense to do this, or better: is it really necessary? I haven't investigated that, yet. I'm printing in portrait mode usually... I wonder what you're trying to do.
> AFAIK pdf doesn't have info about page orientation, and as a sequence, you > have to pass the orientation to the printing application (eg acrobat) so > that it prints corectly, but I need someone to assert this info.. That's correct. PDF doesn't contain info about page orientation. > Also, the page size (A3, A4, letter, etc..), AFAIK pdf doesn't have info > about it either. so even with the right page sizes you cant configure your > pdf print application to choose the correct paper size form within the pdf. > again, you have to pass/set the page size into the application. right? The PDF contains the extent of each page (width and height) but not a paper size as in "A4" or "letter". Acrobat Reader has a lot of options in the GUI to rotate and scale a page before it is printed. The unix command line of Acrobat Reader has options that need to be set (ex. -size a4) so the page is transformed to PostScript correctly. What is your "application"? > What about formats other than ps and pdf? There are probably similar issues. Cheers, Jeremias Märki
