From: Brian Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 11:02 AM To: users@openoffice.org Subject: Re: [users] WRITER: Landscape pages in a portrait document/book
At 08:02 05/12/2008 -0800, Elchanan Noname wrote: >We are writing a book with portrait orientation. We wish to include, on >selected pages, full-page tables in landscape orientation. We wish for >the headers. footers, and pagination on these pages to retain its >"normal" portrait orientation. > >We know how to work with headers and footers in general, and we know >how to create a pair of left/right landscape page styles, in and of >themselves. What we do not yet know is how to create the landscape page >style AND retain or superimpose the portrait orientation in the >headers/footers. I don't think that you can do this - at least, not in the way that you suggest. The position of the header and footer appears - not surprisingly - to depend directly on the page orientation. So if you give selected pages the landscape orientation, you will necessarily move the header and footer in a way that you don't want. The solution, then, starts with keeping all your pages with portrait orientation. You then need to present your information in a landscape table, and this should be easy. Create a table with the numbers of rows and columns exchanged from what you actually need. Insert the material into the table cells. Select the text and go to Format | Character... | Position | Rotation / scaling (or right-click | Character... | Position | Rotation / scaling), and select an appropriate value - probably 90 degrees. Your material will then appear in landscape orientation even though Writer sees the page as in portrait orientation. I trust this helps. Brian Barker --------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks Brian (as always :) And your solution, if I follow correctly, will maintain the landscape orientation of the table, even if it spans pages, yes? Best regards, Elchanan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
