Portrait & Landscape in Same Document?

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Portrait & Landscape in Same Document?

I'm writing a user manual for a piece of equipment, and part of my document will be in portrait format and part of it in landscape. Or, that's what I WANT anyway. I thought it would allow this by inserting a new layout but when I change the new layout section to landscape the entire document is changed. This is really going to crimp my style. Does anyone know if this can be done?

Quad G5, G5 iMac, C2D MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5), 4.5GB Ram, 7800GT, RAID0

Posted on Dec 16, 2007 7:20 AM

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Answer 1

KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 16, 2007 7:25 AM in response to Wingsy

Hello

The responce is simple:
This can't be done with Pages.
To do that, look at professional applications like inDesign or Xpress.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 16 décembre 2007 16:25:1)

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DennisG

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Dec 16, 2007 8:38 AM in response to Wingsy

Wingsy,

As Yvan said, Pages documents can't be a mixture of portrait and landscape modes. But there's a way to fudge the same effect. Set your document for portrait. If there's a page or two of elements that you want in the landscape mode, select those elements (text needs to be in text boxes), then click on the Metrics inspector, and use the rotation wheel to turn them 90 degrees.

-Dennis

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KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 16, 2007 9:54 AM in response to DennisG

Hello DennisG

Am'I wrong?

If we do what you describe, the contents of the "pseudo_lanscape" page will be reduced from factor 0.71 which is not what is wished when we ask for landscape.

If the goal is to build aread_only document, I would divide the original in at least two docs, one in portait format and one in landscape format.
Print to PDF then use a tool allowing us to concatenate PDF pages in a single doc.

Doing that, navigating in the doc will display pages correctly oriented with correct size.

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 16 décembre 2007 18:54:26)

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Wingsy Author

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Dec 16, 2007 10:11 AM in response to KOENIG Yvan

I considered using 2 documents, but that lasted about 2 seconds. I have a table of contents that should link to the landscape pages, and various other hyperlinks throughout that sometimes link to the landscaped portion, and vice versa.

I'm in the process now of shrinking all my landscape pages so they will fit in portrait format. One of my primary readers (the mfg guy) needs the Hubble to read anything, but he'll just have to get over it. It's not that small anyway. I don't see any other solution. I'm not about to dive into Indesign or Quark.

I've tried MS Word, which does allow portrait/landscape in one document, but that has its own set of problems -- it's html export is useless and it can't export in pdf ... and I've yet to get it to produce hyperlinks from the TOC to the document text.

I guess this is why they call what I'm doing, "work". Thanks for everyone's suggestions.

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Answer 5

KOENIG Yvan

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Dec 16, 2007 10:49 AM in response to Wingsy

Hello

Maybe you may put half of the map on page 2*X and the other half on page 2*X+1.

Doing that you would be able to get it at its original size (or even enlarge it).

Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 16 décembre 2007 19:49:6)

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