Re: Rotated pages -- Frame to Acrobat

[Thomas Neuburger <thomasn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Shlomo. This is valuable info indeed.

Has Acrobat changed its behavior from version to version in this regard? I 
find that different versions and different OS's can produce different 
"autorotation" results on the same source file.

Cheers,

Tom Neuburger
www.twelfthnight.com


Shlomo Perets wrote:

>Your friend wrote:
>
>>>I am converting a Frame book to pdf using distiller. Two of the pages in 
>>>the book are changing layout, portrait to landscape for no apparent 
>>>reason. They display and print correctly within Frame.
>
>Acrobat Distiller uses an "AutoRotation" mechanism, whereby it decides 
>whether to rotate a page based on the predominant text orientation on the 
>specific page. Results will be satisfactory for most or all pages, but 
>pages where you only have figures, for example, may be rotated wrongly.
>
>There are no rotation controls in the user interface of Distiller 3 or 4. 
>However, there are a number of methods whereby you can adjust/control the 
>AutoRotation.
>
>* Edit the relevant .joboptions file (in the Distiller/Settings folder), 
>using a text editor. It will start as
>
><<
>   /ASCII85EncodePages false
>   /AutoPositionEPSFiles true
>   /AutoRotatePages /....
>
>Possible values for the /AutoRotatePages item are:
>/PageByPage, /None or /All
>
>More info can be found in the Distiller Parameters manual (Adobe Technical 
>Note #5151, included Acrobat's Help/ENU folder).
>
>Choose the option you like, save the file as a text file and redistill.
>
>* It is possible to placed a special pdfmark command that will force 
>Distiller to rotate a specific page the way you like it (possibly placed 
>on a master page).
>
>* One can add some extra text with the same color as the page background 
>to "fool" Distiller. As "invisible" text may become noticeable in 
>different situations, I tend to discourage this option.


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