Our company's application creates reports using PCL. They are written to a file, then converted to PDF for on-screen viewing.
The PCL to PDF converter is from Oakdoc.
So, I recently had requirements for a huge report. 16.67 DPI wasn't enough and it was suggested I do it Landscape.
However, when I issue the landscape commands, the resulting PDF is rotated in Adobe Reader. It shows the narrow side going across and the wide side going down and the text reads from bottom to top. To make it look normal, the user must go into view and rotate it clockwise. And that would be annoying to have to always do that.
Barring any way to tell the converter to do something special and any way to tell Adobe reader to launch with a rotated view (can't find any options for either), I thought maybe a custom page.
Instead of telling the printer I'm doing landscape, can I tell it I'm using an 11 x 8.5 instead of the standard 8.5 x 11? In theory, if PCL can do this and if the PCL to PDF converter handles it correctly, I will have a "portrait" page that's 11 inches long and 8.5 inches tall. Since the PCL to PDF doesn't see it as landscape mode, it shouldn't come up rotated in Adobe Reader. At least in theory.
Does anybody know of a way to specify a custom page size? There's the 101 page size that's custom. But then how do I specify width and height?
P.S. I know there is software to do the rotation, but I was trying to avoid having to install yet more software at client sites. Not to mention avoiding additional costs.
The PCL to PDF converter is from Oakdoc.
So, I recently had requirements for a huge report. 16.67 DPI wasn't enough and it was suggested I do it Landscape.
However, when I issue the landscape commands, the resulting PDF is rotated in Adobe Reader. It shows the narrow side going across and the wide side going down and the text reads from bottom to top. To make it look normal, the user must go into view and rotate it clockwise. And that would be annoying to have to always do that.
Barring any way to tell the converter to do something special and any way to tell Adobe reader to launch with a rotated view (can't find any options for either), I thought maybe a custom page.
Instead of telling the printer I'm doing landscape, can I tell it I'm using an 11 x 8.5 instead of the standard 8.5 x 11? In theory, if PCL can do this and if the PCL to PDF converter handles it correctly, I will have a "portrait" page that's 11 inches long and 8.5 inches tall. Since the PCL to PDF doesn't see it as landscape mode, it shouldn't come up rotated in Adobe Reader. At least in theory.
Does anybody know of a way to specify a custom page size? There's the 101 page size that's custom. But then how do I specify width and height?
P.S. I know there is software to do the rotation, but I was trying to avoid having to install yet more software at client sites. Not to mention avoiding additional costs.