Hi,
I am printing from Word (2000) a document with 2 pages in A4 (portrait) and 2 following pages in A3 (landscape).
In the resulting pdf only the first A3 page is correct. The second A3 page is in A4 and in portrait format and part of the information is not visible. The content of the pages can be as less than one sentence on each page.
The error is in V1.7.0 and in V1.6.2.
In V1.5.0 there is no error. The versions inbetween I did not check yet. The error occurs on XP (32 bit) and Win7 (64 bit).
Please can you take a look,
thanks in advance!
Mike
PS: thanks for a great tools 
Hi,
this is most likely related to the Ghostscript version, as GS can have problems with finding the correct page orientation, especially if there is only very little conten on a page.
But i will still take a look at it to be sure.
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
thanks for looking. The error does occur with nearly empty and with fully occupied pages (a big table spanning some A3 pages)
best regards,
Mike
Hi,
it mainly depends on the amount of text which is in a 90° angle to the side of the page.
You can try to either use our new beta of PDFCreator written in C#, or you can also use the latest version of PDFCreator with an older version of Ghostscript by manually installing an older GS version and pointing to it in the PDFCreator option.
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
I tried GS 9.05 and the beta with the same results 
I put *.doc and the result in a zip-file (5kb) at www.twus.de/pdf_error.zip if you would like
to take a look (minimal file to create the error)…
many thanks for looking!
best regards,
Mike
BTW.
the beta looks good, I will give it a try.
One thing: when printing with 1.9.0.126, the dialog of pdfcreator starts in the background => one click needed
(OS: Win7 64bit)
Mike
Hi,
it is reproducable here, but I know orientation problem is difficult to handle with Ghostscript, so I don´t know if it can actually be fixed. Maybe we can find something by looking at changes from version 1.5 -1.7 .
Thank you for the files and comments.
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
thanks again for looking! I tested 1.7.1 with the same results. I hope you can see some differences…
best regards,
Mike
Hi,
we decided to have an options to manually set the rotation in the new C# version of PDFCreator, it will probably not get fixed in the VB6 version.
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
thanks for taking a look into this problem. A fix in the new C# version will be appreciated 
best regards,
Mike
Hi,
a preview version is already available here: http://forums.pdfforge.org/discussion/11150/testers-wanted-pdfcreator-rewrite-preview-version#Item_1
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
I did test it (1.9.0.126: please see my comment from June 27th), but I think a new C# version with “my” fix is still to come?
best regards,
Mike
Hi,
sorry I must have overlooked this while wrinting the comment, so forcing the orientation didn´t help?
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
first of all: sorry for the long delays!
Which setting do you mean? I tried V1.9.0.126 again and was not able to find settings to correct the erroneous printing… May b you give me a hint…
thanks in advance!
regards,
Mike
Hi,
i meant under profile settings->pdf->general->page orientation.
But then the mixed orientation might still be a problem, as the orientation can only be forced to be either all portrait or all landscape.
Please also try using the free PDF Architect create module for this, as it might not be possible to solve this problem in an automated way due to ghostscript limitations.
regards,
Robin
Hi Robin,
I tried the PDF Architect create module (I used the Architect printer in word), which gave me the correct document
But I hope, this problem will be addressed in future ghostscript versions.
Thank you for your time and assistance!
best regards,
Mike