Printing to Tabloid Size Paper, Landscape View???

[AlexCuse]

Hi All,

If you need more background, please see thread181-1255611.

I have done some programming to allow me to create .pdf files in multiple locations through MS Access (Access only allows one default location for reports to print to). What it does is create a PostScript file, using a printer I have set up. It then renames this file and copies to another directory and uses Acrobat Distiller to convert it to a .pdf. Somewhere in the translation here, I am losing about the right 1/3rd of each page.

I have set my printer to print to Tabloid and in Landscape view, but will it take these settings into account when printing to a file? Distiller is also set to the correct paper size, but still ends up showing as regular 8.5 * 11 in Portrait view. I am really confused here, and don't know very much about PostScript. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks a lot,

Alex

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[PC888]

Did you write the code to create the .ps file?

If all else fails, there are very simple PostScript commands to allow you to rotate your output by 90 degrees, and translate to a new origin. This means you can actually print landscape when the printer thinks you are printing portrait.

If you don't create the .ps file, consider inserting the rotate and translate commands with a macro.

Hope that gives you ideas to work on.