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January 17, 2017
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Microsoft Print to pdf turns a landscape page 90 degrees

  • January 17, 2017
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Hi all,

So the document was created in Adobe Pro XI and some of the pages in the middle have to be formatted in landscape, not by my design that's just how these documents are developed for paper use. Anyway, Let's say pages 1 and 2 are in portrait view, and pages 3 and 4 are in landscape view. When I use Microsoft's Print to PDF tool the landscaped pages get turned 90 degrees making the text unreadable. This is an issue because, while I use Adobe Pro for the creation of the documents, my in-field auditors use Adobe Reader to fill out the documents. Copies of the documents need to be sent to multiple people after the fact, and they have to be changed from a fillable document to non-fillable document, a process not achievable in Reader DC without Microsoft's Print to PDF tool. I have tried CutePDF too, same results. Any ideas?

Thanks,

DJ

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Dov Isaacs
Legend
January 17, 2017

Yeah, don't use amateur hour products to do professional work. With Microsoft's “print to PDF” (Windows 10) and CutePDF, you are getting exactly what you paid for.

If you want support for those products, go to Microsoft or Acro Software respectively. Don't expect support for those “products” on Adobe forums! Sorry!

          - Dov

- Dov Isaacs, former Adobe Principal Scientist (April 30, 1990 - May 30, 2021)
Participant
January 17, 2017

So the answer is to buy x-number of Pro DC licenses for my staff and teach them the Save As Optimized PDF -> Discard fillable form fields route? No way to do this with Reader DC?

try67
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 17, 2017

Reader is not capable of creating PDF files.