Pages Paper Formatting?

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Pages Paper Formatting?

Hey guys,

I need to create a research poster for a presentation and I've heard of people suggesting to use Pages, so I am. Now the poster needs to be Landscape mode, 36" in height and 40" in width. It's a bit weird though, beacuse when I set the page to landscape and insert 36 height and 40 width, the rulers show it the other way around. I see 40 height and 36 width. Am I seeing this correctly? How do I fix this, other than reversing the dimensions on page setup?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.4), mid-2007

Posted on Aug 1, 2013 11:55 AM

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PeterBreis0807

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Aug 1, 2013 1:17 PM in response to SOJHA

You simply have the wrong orientation clicked.

If you have made the paper size wide not tall, it does not need to be rotated.

But you must consider how you are going to print this. You need to orient the sheet for the correct feed into the printer.

If it gets feed into the printer on the short edge then you need to set up the custom page size to reflect that.

For a short side feed the paper should be 30" wide by 40" high and orientation would then be the second option of turned 90°.

For a long side feed the paper should be 40" wide by 30" high and orientation would be the first option, no turn.

Peter

PS I hope the research has nothing to do with rocket science. 😉

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SOJHA Author

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Aug 1, 2013 2:28 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

Orientation as in I should have it in portrait and not landscape? I thought this was the case, but I was specifically told to have it as landscape with 40 wide and 36 height. Could you please clarify this part again to me? This is the first time I'm using pages for something like this.

As far as printing, it won't really be my problem. I'm going to take this pages document, convert it to PDF and then send it to the printing department, which they'll hopefully get.

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Answer 3

Aug 1, 2013 2:48 PM in response to SOJHA

Orientation is which way it is facing not what shape it is. ie Where is the top of the sheet.

Format is whether it is portrait or landscape.

You are performing a double negative when you are turning the page sideways in the set-up then sideways again in Orientation.

Peter

PS Avoid transparency, shadows, reflections, 3D Charts and fancy borders on images if you are going to pdf. Pages turns those into 72dpi bitmaps.

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SOJHA Author

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Aug 1, 2013 2:49 PM in response to PeterBreis0807

OH. So basically, I should leave the orientation at Portrait, and then set the width to 40" and height to 36" yes? Then it will solve the issue?

Thanks for the PDF suggestion, I would love to put those reflections in, but oh well...

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Answer 5

Aug 1, 2013 3:48 PM in response to SOJHA

Yes. Orientation is what it says.

Peter

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