SID-00285: Print part of a topic in landscape

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Hello

In many of my topics I have graphics which are landscape oriented. I would like them to printed in landscape.

The question: Is it possible to print part of a topic in landscape?

-- MichelDenys - 2009-04-27

Discussion and Answer

I don't think you can do that for printing the generated HTML.

However, if you use GenPDFAddOn, you can have it switch between profile and landscape modes throughout the document. Then when you print the PDF document, the pages will be properly oriented.

-- SeanCMorgan - 2009-04-27

Sean

Thanks for the info.

I know that CSS 2.0 (not 2.1) and CSS 3.0 support landscape printing but it is not well supported in most browsers. Typical code:

<style type="text/css" media="print">
  @page port {size: portrait;}
  @page land {size: landscape;}
  .portrait {page: port;}
  .landscape {page: land;}
</style>

-- MichelDenys - 2009-04-28

Interesting! Obviously I wasn't aware of that.

I googled for various examples of that, but I couldn't get any of them to work (even though it's supposed to work on my IE 6).

Assuming you overcome that, you might be able to create your own preference variables with calls of those styles, for use as shortcuts to set the page orientation (e.g., %PRINT_LANDSCAPE%, %PRINT_PROFILE%).

-- SeanCMorgan - 2009-04-28

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