Problem printing in landscape

[homer_3]

I'm using MS Word 2003. I set the page layout to landscape. I print out using the primo pdf printer. When I open the file in an adobe reader, it defaults to showing the page sideways. I know you can rotate the image, but is there a way to set it up so the user won't have to rotate the document and the reader will just know to display as landscape?

[Lance Kayashima]

The auto-rotate option can be disabled to see if this provides the look that you need.

After printing to PrimoPDF, the option dialog box will be displayed. Select Custom, and a secondary window will be displayed. Disable Auto-rotate pages and then click OK twice to continue with the conversion.

[sbrbot]

Finally, that's it - turn off auto-rotation feature.

[bcrowley]

I'm sorry if this question has already been answered, but how do you save a Power Point presentation so that it is in landscape? I tried doing what was said for the Microsoft Word doc, but it doesn't seem to have the same options.

Thanks!

[sascha]

bcrowley, the auto-rotate option is in the primo dialog, not the powerpoint dialog. HTH.

[aschaefmn]

I just installed / re-installed primo pdf; turned off the auto-rotate and my spreadsheet (which is formatted landscape) still prints rotated. Am I doing something wrong? Please advise...

[Jason.Stockett]

I just installed / re-installed primo pdf; turned off the auto-rotate and my spreadsheet (which is formatted landscape) still prints rotated. Am I doing something wrong? Please advise...

Can you please send me the sample .xls file and the converted .pdf file. You can send those to me at jason.stockett@activepdf.com and I can take a look at exactly how it's being formatted.

[psdie]

Hi Jason / TWIMC

I can confirm that printing charts etc from Excel (XP in my case) sometimes yields rotation problems when "Auto Rotate Pages" is enabled in PrimoPDF.

Disabling it via 'Custom' solves the problem. However, the 'Custom' setting yields poor image quality (it appears to be emulating the 'Screen' image quality settings?). Note that settings within 'Custom' do not appear to extend to control over image compression quality, only "downsampling", which is already set to disabled.

Is it possible to do one of the following to resolve this?

Improve image quality for the 'Custom' output setting (e.g., a way to base a profile on the 'Print' setting instead of 'Screen').
Disable 'Auto Rotate Pages' for all settings.

I've tried achieving (2) by adding "AutoRotatePages=FALSE" under "[PDFSettings]" in "_default.ini", but this appears to have no effect (unless a restart is required or something?). Perhaps there is a registry setting instead?

Many thanks, Ben

[Jason.Stockett]

1. There are a variety of settings that will change the quality of the images including the "PDF Resolution" under the custom settings.

2. You can change the default setting using the config file located in the following location...

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Application Data\PrimoPDFSet.xml

The key you are looking for is...

<Key Name="AutoRotatePages" Value="True" />

You will want to change the value to "False".

[psdie]

#2 sounds perfect, thank you Jason! Will try now.

This solves my particular problem; on the general subject of image quality under 'Custom', though, presumably #1 doesn't help with image compression, only image resolution? With the resolution at 300dpi, I was seeing heavy JPEG-like compression on the images, not low resolution.

Many thanks, ben

[psdie]

Hmm .. under Windows 2000 and what I *think* is the latest version of PrimoPDF, there is no "PrimoPDFSet.xml" anywhere under "c:\Documents and Settings\" (using a filename search under all subfolders).

Any suggestions?

[psdie]

Looks like the auto update feature didn't work properly. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and am now seeing the proper v4.0.1, including "PrimoPDFSet.xml" where it should be.

Disabling the auto rotate feature in "PrimoPDFSet.xml" only appears to affect the settings when using the 'Custom' profile. It seems to be overridden when using 'Print' etc. e.g., after setting "AutoRotatePages" to False in in "PrimoPDFSet.xml", I found that printing with the 'Screen' option created a correctly orientated page (but with heavy image compression), whereas 'Print' created an incorrectly orientated version.

According to this PrimoPDF forum thread (http://forums.primopdf.com/showthread.php?t=938), Auto Rotate appears to be overridden by each Profile: "none" for 'Print', "PageByPage" for 'Screen', etc.

I've therefore concluded that I actually needed Auto Rotate ENABLED, but there still doesn't appear to be a way to customise this for the built-in profiles. However, THIS TIME using the 'Custom' profile and disabling image downsampling solved the image quality problem - I guess installation problems silently prevented this working previously.

NEW PROBLEM: Printing on 'Custom' produces PDFs that were 4.7MB+ big, whereas the largest size produced by any of the built-in profiles (Print, etc) was ~700KB!

Comparing the settings in "PrimoPDFSet.xml" with Douglas's default profile settings thread (http://forums.primopdf.com/showthread.php?t=938) reveals numerous differences between the default 'Custom' settings and the built-in profile settings (e.g., Flate compression disabled!).

However, changing these in "PrimoPDFSet.xml" made virtually *zero* difference to the 'Custom' PDF file size (a few KB). Any ideas what on earth is going on with 'Custom' settings?!

Hope can help - I can send over the PowerPoint doc in question if this helps.

Cheers, Ben

[Jason.Stockett]

Each of the preset options are already optimized for a specific type of conversion (ie, screen uses low image quality for displaying PDF's on screen, print uses higher image quality so the printed PDF's display properly, etc...). Custom allows you complete control over the conversion settings though and may very well increase the file size based on those settings. If you need to reduce image size and the preset options are not viable for you then you may need to make some adjustments to the Custom settings in order to shrink the overall file size.

Compression, DPI, image quality, etc... are all options that will impact the quality and overall file size during the conversion process.

[hboutwell]

So I'm on Windows XP, and I've downloaded the latest Primo PDF. I run Acrobat 7.0 also. It will not rotate the plot. I set it to landscape, it prints portrait, I set it to portrait it prints right. what is going on? Please help.

Heidi

[zack.schofield]

When you view the file in print preview how does it display?

[mistykiri]

Yes I have the same problem no matter how my preview looks, the PDF always comes out as portrait.
I tried to disable auto-rotate as some suggested in here but didn't work. I was using Powerpoint (file already set in landscape) and I tried to open the "OPTION" box but only found:-

1) Automatically launch PDF viewer.....
2) Keep security settings
3) Keep document information settings

But NO "auto-rotate" box for me to untick.

Can anybody help me with this? Many thanks!

[dimar]

The auto-rotate option can be disabled to see if this provides the look that you need.

Hm! I thought auto-rotate is needed for bringing a given image to the correct orientation for reading without problems. At least that is the behaviour of most drivers in auto-rotate mode :confused:.
Regards, dimar

[Core Muscle Concepts]

I have turned off the auto-rotation as well and am still getting documents printing sideways.. I am now going to unistall the program and reinstall to see if that changes anything.

[kamal22]

The auto-rotate option can be disabled to see if this provides the look that you need.

After printing to PrimoPDF, the option dialog box will be displayed. Select Custom, and a secondary window will be displayed. Disable Auto-rotate pages and then click OK twice to continue with the conversion.
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[ludo5]

he auto-rotate option can be disabled to see if this provides the look that you need.

After printing to PrimoPDF, the option dialog box will be displayed. Select Custom, and a secondary window will be displayed. Disable Auto-rotate pages and then click OK twice to continue with the conversion.
Thanks
VS

[ludo5]

I'm using MS Word 2003. I set the page layout to landscape. I print out using the primo pdf printer. When I open the file in an adobe reader, it defaults to showing the page sideways. I know you can rotate the image, but is there a way to set it up so the user won't have to rotate the document and the reader will just know to display as landscape?
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[kkswolf]

you should try the pdf tools at http://www.noliturbare.com/index.php. There is a rotate tool that works for me every time. I could not make any of the other work arounds mentioned above in this thread work.

[kskristinesmith]

Access

1. Click in the file.
2. On the Page Layout tab, click Landscape.
3. Click the Microsoft Office ButtonButton image, and then click Print.
4. Click Properties, and then click the Page tab.
5. Under Orientation, click Landscape.
6. Click OK twice.



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[Diamondback]

I have a related question. I have a Word Doc where page 1 is portrait and pages 2 and 3 are landscape. When I print with Primo, all pages are portrait. Can I preserve the portrait/landscape/landscape pages when printing? Previously I had a full version of Adobe and was able to do this.