[reportlab-users] Bug in SimpleDocTemplate?

[Robin Becker]

Michael Hipp wrote:

> Here's a fragment of what I'm doing in trying to create a landscape document...

> 

>      from reportlab.lib.pagesizes import letter, landscape

>      pageSize = landscape(letter)

>      doc = SimpleDocTemplate(fnam, pagesize=pageSize, showBoundary=0)

> 

> When I pull up the resulting pdf in Adobe Reader, it looks perfect, but it 

> prints portrait. In the print dialog for Adobe Reader it tells me

> 

>    Document: 11.0 x 8.5 in.

>    Paper: 8.5 x 11.0 in.

> 

> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

> 


well when I do it I in document properties 792 x 612 ie landscape letter, but in 
my print dialog I see a diagram with dimensions 841 x 595 (because I have A4 
paper) so that's also landscape.


How does your document look in reader and how does it actually print?
-- 
Robin Becker