[reportlab-users] Bug in SimpleDocTemplate?

[Tim Roberts]

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?

>   


This is normal.  When you have a landscape document, you have to change
the printer to print in landscape.  Alternatively, the Acrobat dialog
has an "Auto-rotate and center" option that will do this for you
automatically.

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.