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#36339 - 06/13/11 11:42 AM PDF portrait or landscape?
abbeyman Offline
OL Newbie

Registered: 06/13/11
Posts: 5
Loc: UK
I create an A4 document in PDF using the PP driver. When I print using production I use a form to enhance the PDF that is captured. However some of the A4 pages are landscape and when I subsequently print using a windows based driver the ladnscape pages print incorrectly, all pages are A4 portrait, how can I get PP to automatically recognise an A4 landscape page?

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#36353 - 06/14/11 11:20 AM Re: PDF portrait or landscape? [Re: abbeyman]
Raphael Lalonde Lefebvre Offline
OL Expert

Registered: 10/14/05
Posts: 4956
Loc: Objectif Lune Montreal
abbeyman,

What version of the software are you using? I believe there used to be a similar issue before, but it was fixed in version 7.2. Try maybe using the latest 7.2.4 version, and see if it fixes the problem.

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

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#36354 - 06/14/11 12:20 PM Re: PDF portrait or landscape? [Re: Raphael Lalonde Lefebvre]
abbeyman Offline
OL Newbie

Registered: 06/13/11
Posts: 5
Loc: UK
Using 7.2.4, what was the fix? Is there any documents I can get to help me.

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#36355 - 06/14/11 01:37 PM Re: PDF portrait or landscape? [Re: abbeyman]
Raphael Lalonde Lefebvre Offline
OL Expert

Registered: 10/14/05
Posts: 4956
Loc: Objectif Lune Montreal
Well, there was no "fix"...it should simply work.

A workaround you might want to try is to create a new form, which will use the pdf emulation, and use the incoming pdf as data. It will have two pages: one portrait, and one landscape. Then, you will put a condition on each of the pages. Look for something that differentiates a portrait page versus a landscape page, and make a text conditions based on that, then put them on the portrait page and the landscape page. As for the content of those pages, all they will do is display the current page of the pdf, which can be done by right-clicking on the pdf in the data selector, and choose "Set as Background". Do that for both pages. Once the form is done, send it to Workflow.

With this, the page should properly switch between portrait and landscape if you use that form in the Print Using Windows Driver output.

Let us know if that works!

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

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