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Microsoft Print To PDF Option Changes Page Orientation To Portrait

Anonymous
2019-03-13T15:17:33+00:00

Hi, I'm attempting to print a report in a Windows 10 environment using the Microsoft Print To PDF option in the Print Dialog.  There seems to be something rotating the page prior to viewing.  I confirmed this by actually printing out the pdf file that was generated.  It displays the data in portrait mode, but the actual print out is in landscape.

I went back to the "Print\General" dialog and selected Microsoft Print To PDF.  I confirmed the "OK" button became enabled at this point.  I then selected "Preferences" and changed the "Orientation" combo box from Portrait to Landscape.  The preview changed at this point to reflect landscape.  I then selected "Advanced" and viewed the Paper/Output and Copy County options.  Paper Size was set to "Letter" and Count was set to 1 Copy.  I selected OK and confirmed the orientation in the preview hadn't changed.   It was still showing Landscape.  I then selected OK.  Microsoft Print To PDF was still selected.  There were no other relevant configuration choices, just Report Range, Paper Range and Project Options.  I review these anyway, but could not find anything related to paper orientation.

At this point I selected OK and was prompted for a location and name for the output.  I provided this (noting the name and location).  When printing completed, I opened the correct file in the correct location using Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.  The two pages of my report were both in Portrait.

At this point, I went to File\Print.  I noticed the Orientation in the Print Dialog was set to Auto Portrait/landscape.  I changed nothing in this screen, and selected Print.  I did notice that the preview screen showed the page in landscape mode already though.

When the report printed out, it was in the correct orientation, landscape.

I went a step further and took a Word document created in Office 365 online. and changed it's orientation to landscape and printed it out using the Microsoft Print To PDF.  This seemed to display correctly in landscape mode.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-03-13T15:50:57+00:00

    Hi, Paul,

    I am an Independent Advisor.

    Step 1.

    If this is an Acrobat PDF file, follow these steps to Convert from Portrait to Landscape.

    1. Open the View menu in Adobe Reader or Acrobat. Locate the Rotate View submenu and choose either "Clockwise" or "Counterclockwise" to rotate the page view in 90-degree increments. This reorients pages from portrait to landscape, or vice versa. Although you can't save this conversion with your document, this can ease the task of reading a file that opens in the wrong orientation.
    2. Change page orientation at printing time to produce output that converts pages without altering your PDF file itself. Open the File menu, select "Print" and locate the Page Handling options. Uncheck "Auto-Rotate and Center" and click on the Page Setup button. Change page orientations and click on the "OK" button to print your document.
    3. Rotate a 3D model that appears in a PDF, CAD or modeling-program file. Click on the model with the Hand tool to activate it so you can access Acrobat's 3D tools. Use the Rotate tool in the 3D toolbar to reorient an object from portrait to landscape or vice versa. If using Adobe Acrobat, when you turn on "Enable 3D Selection For The Hand Tool" in Acrobat's 3D preferences, you also can use the Hand tool to convert your view.

    Step 2.

    Using Standard or Pro version of Acrobat Reader:

    1. Open the Tools menu, locate its Pages submenu and choose "Rotate" to open the Rotate Pages dialog box. Open the Direction drop-down menu and set the angle and degree of rotation to 90 degrees clockwise or counterclockwise, or 180 degrees. Use the Page Range radio buttons to choose all pages or a range of pages. If you select a range, enter a starting and ending page number in the Pages entry fields. Use the Rotate drop-down menu to select even, odd, or even and odd pages. Click "OK" to convert the orientation of your selected pages. Press "Ctrl-Z" to undo your page rotation if you choose the wrong pages, direction or amount.
    2. Change the orientation of online pages that you view in a Web browser and convert to PDF with the Adobe Acrobat plug-in. Open the "Web Page Conversion Settings" dialog box in your browser and click the "Page Layout" tab. Use the "Switch to Landscape If Scaled Smaller Than" percentage field to specify how small you must scale a portrait-mode page before the plug-in converts it to landscape. Activate the "Scale Wide Contents to Fit Page" option to convert page contents to page width.
    3. Crop pages so they become wide or tall, changing their page orientation when you eliminate part of the page area. Open the Tools menu, locate its Pages submenu and choose "Crop." To reduce page dimensions by eliminating margins, activate the "Remove White Margins" check box. To specify new dimensions for your pages, enter the amount of the original page size you want to remove from the top, bottom, left and right of the document, and specify which pages you want to crop. You can select all, define a starting and ending page number, or restrict the operation to even-, odd-, or even- and odd-numbered pages. - Source smallbusiness.chron.com

    Pat

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