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Subject:FW: PDF page orientation problem From:Brigitte Johnston <bjohnston -at- f-tech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Nov 2000 12:30:32 -0500
Awesome! That works. Many thanks to Dick and Susan for your reponses.
Yes, I checked the online help, but not the ACROBAT online help! :-) Learn
somethin' new every day...
Thanks-
Brigitte Johnston
Livonia, MI
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Margulis [mailto:margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net]
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:51 AM
To: Brigitte Johnston
Subject: Re: PDF page orientation problem
Open the PDF in Acrobat, go to the page in question, and on the Document
menu select "Rotate Pages." You can rotate individual pages that way (or
ranges of pages) and resave the PDF from Acrobat.
>Hi all. Here's a sticky one for you...I'm working in Word 97 and using
>Acrobat 4.0 to create .PDF files from my .DOC files. I've got a document
>formatted in 'portrait' page orientation, with the exception of a couple of
>pages, which are 'landscape'. When I print it as a .DOC file, the
landscape
>pages print with the text facing right (so that I have to turn the book to
>the right to read it). This is the way I want it. However, when I print
>the .PDF file, those same landscape pages print with the text facing left
>(so that I have to turn the book to the left to read it). Is there some
way
>to make the .PDF act like the .DOC file when printing? The text on the
>landscape pages is in a table.
>
>Brigitte Johnston, Sr. Doc. Specialist
>bjohnston -at- f-tech -dot- com
>Livonia, MI
>
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