Hi there,
I am using PDRCreator for a good moment and believe in it.
But i’ve encountered a problem while printing my PDF.
My document is a Autocad that i’m printing to a 30 x 48 paper size format.
The document is printed correctly but it’s showen in portrait.
And i want it in landscape (Juste a little rotate)
I’ve tryed every option in Options > Formats > PDF > Rotate Auto.
Nothing to do.
I find it funny that it doesnt rotate when the option is selected.
Anyone can help ?
Thanx
Hi,
have you tried changing the page orientation in the PDFCreator printer settings (in your windows control panel)?
If everything else fails you could always use the free PDF Architect create module to rotate the pages afterwards.
regards,
Robin
Hi there Robin,
I’ve tryed it and tested it again this morning.
What it does is this : The page stays Portrait but the information is in landscape; result there’s information that isnt printed since the width of the page isnt enough for the landscape output.
I was more into trying to find a solution for PDFCreator then using PDF Architect or Acrobat afterward.
How come the option doesn’t work ? (For auto. rotate)
It’s a bit odd that there an option and it doesnt do nothing.
Is it the first time people come to you and talk about this problem ?
Hi,
the option only works, if there is sufficient data to recocnize the orientation of the input file.
If no orientation can be recognized, then the auto-rotate option will not do anything.
Physical printers always print the page from top to bottom regardless of the documents orientation,
so the .ps data which goes to the printer is always arranged according to this, but ghostscript can only recognize a landscape format, if there is a lot of text at a 90° angle.
At the moment we are porting the PDFCreator to C#, it will have an option to force page rotation, but at the moment I am afraid there is no PDFCreator workarround for this problem.
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
First of all thank you very much for you explanation !
I understand much better why it doesn’t work.
We’ll work with the workaround meanwhile.
When are you going to release the new option ?
Thank you again.
Same problem here (may 2013), I always print in landscape, sometimes if text is not 90° (i.e. 45°) or no text (picture), the page is portrait. It is odd that -for this documents only- when I select landscape in windows or any program printing dialog box, the result seems PDFCreator doesn’t read the choice, only looks for 90°. (I understand there are postscript limitations)
Thank you for the coming solution to force (I guess it is just a PDF parameter), it is much awaited.
Hi there,
I’ve noticed your team has released a new version of the program.
I’ve installed it and there isn’t a possiblity to rotate automaticly all the document.
But i’ve noticed there’s an option called “Actions” (French version) that you can point out a vbscript file.
Is it possible to create a vbscript to rotate a pdf file ?
Hi,
you can use the pdfforge.dll to rotate the files.
regards,
Robin
Superbe !
Just saw there’s a new update !
Nice job Robin and all your team !
Juste a little question … how to i access or configure the pdfforge.dll ?
Oh, ok i get it.
pdfforge.dll is only a library of function that i can use to programe VBS ?
If so … i gotta get into programming i guess !
Yeah, there is a help file with some examples in the pdfcreator\plugins folder.
regards,
Robin
Cyberflow, I have run into the same problem. If you revert back to 1.6.2, it will work perfectly.
This could be caused by GS9.07, like other issues. There is a link on explaining how to use GS9.05 with PDFCreator 1.7.1:
http://forums.pdfforge.org/discussion/11449/v1-7-1-stampstring-changed-page-orientation-extra-page
Or you could try to obtain and install PDFCreator 1.6.2, which still has GS9.05.
Peter.
Hi there,
I had the older version installed.
Will try out the GS9.05 then.
pdfcreator29072012x, I would beg to differ. I am currently using 1.6.2 with GS9.07. The only way I could get this to work was to downgrade PDFCreator. Downgrading my GS version did nothing. I hope this info helps.
Hi,
things are getting a bit mixed up here:
The original issue is a problem with the recognition of the page orientation, which can vary depending on the input and may or may not be fixed by using a different GS version.
The solution of downgrading to GS 9.05 applies to the problem where an extra empty page gets created if you use a stampstring.
regards,
Robin
Thanx Robin !
Didn’t downgrade yet i was waiting to try and do a vb script to rotate the pages.
But gotta lurn a bit of VB before doing so
Frank
Hi,
you can find some examples in the COM folder of your PDFCreator installation, if it helps:)
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin !
Thanx alot.
Just installed the preview version of PDFCreator.
The look is really sharp ! I love it !
Nice revamping !
I tryed the rotate function, it’s perfect !
For those who are using Autocad and that their pages comes out upside down, just use the option “Plot upside down” in Autocad.
Good job for the team !
Thanx a lot
