Layout setting (Portrait) not working

[HansPL]

Hello:

I have set Win10 > Setting > Devices > Printer & scanners > Adobe PDF > Manage > Printing Preferences > Layout > Orientation

tp "Portrait". Still, when I print using Adobe PDF, the resulting pdf file is in Landscape layout.

Would anyone know why this may happen?

Thanks,

Hans L

[Test Screen Name]

There is an auto rotate function which will turn a page if the text is mostly sideways. Is that what you’re seeing? It can be turned off.

[HansPL]

Thanks. Now, I have looked everywhere I could figure out this setting could be, but cannot find it. Would you kindly lead me to water (I will drink :-)!?

Hans L

[Test Screen Name]

Took some finding. Here it is

To get this screen click Edit for job settings.

[HansPL]

Thanks again. I found it.

However, I do not know exactly what is going on. I have an open pdf document, and when I start to print it die Adobe FDF (to file), Layout > Orientation shows "Portrait", but when I print National Geographic Archive and I check Layout > Orientation, it  shows Landscape. I think the whole thing is f-d up.

Any further ideas?

If not, I am grateful for what I have learned.

Hans L

[Test Screen Name]

Not sure I follow. If you have a PDF document already why would you print to PDF?

[HansPL]

I was just checking the setting or Orientation, which in one ase is Portrait and in another case Landscape, in spite of my setting the Orientation in Adopbe PDF printer to Portrait and setting automatic rotation to Off.

[Test Screen Name]

Changes made to printer setup only apply to the current print session.

[HansPL]

Well, there is this setup/preferences:

Win10 > Setting > Devices > Printer & scanners > Adobe PDF > Manage > Printing Preferences > Layout > Orientation

Shouldn't that be retained between print sessions?

[Dov Isaacs]

You also need to set the printer defaults, not just the preferences, to these values!!!!

          - Dov

[HansPL]

Dov, isn't

Win10 > Setting > Devices > Printer & scanners > Adobe PDF > Manage > Printing Preferences > Layout > Orientation

the Adobe PDF printer default. If not, what is?

Regards,

Hans L

[Dov Isaacs]

No it is not!!!

Starting at the Adobe PDF Printer Properties, click on the Advanced tab:

From there, click on the Printing Defaults button:

From there you get at all the default settings. These are maintained between applications and multiple runs of the same applications. The settings should match exactly for Preferences.

Normally, if you set the defaults first, the preferences assume those values. And it has been that way since Windows 2000.

          - Dov

[HansPL]

Dov, thank you for the very detailed response. I did all of it. Still, when I print National Geographic archive magazines, the orientation is Landscape (I set it to Portrait every time, and every time I print, it is back to Landscape). Not surprised ... NSG archive is a piece of crap in my view.

I will see if a restart of the computer will help (however, I do not think so, because when I did set the Default PDF printer, it was already Portrait).

I can't help to note that contrary to most other software, in Adobe PDF printer you set the Default the way you normally set Preferences /Options, and PDF printers Preferences are session-bound. Most peculiar.

Again, thanks, and I guess I have to live with the NGM peculiarities until I have saved all the articles I want (on oceanic islands).

Regards,

Hans L

[Dov Isaacs]

Actually, the Adobe PDF printer is simply a specialized instance of the standard Windows PostScript driver PSCRIPT5.DLL with a port monitor and specialized plug-in. Preferences and defaults actually work no differently for Adobe PDF than for a physical Adobe PostScript printer using the same underlying driver.

          - Dov

[Test Screen Name]

Yes. So long as the app isn't already running when you set it.

[Test Screen Name]

Still not clear whether you are

* Trying to print an existing PDF to a real printer? (Our discussion does not apply)

* Trying to print an existing file, not a PDF, to a PDF, using the Adobe PDF printer? (Discussion applies, but maybe there is another way to make the file: please give details)

* Trying to print a PDF to make a new PDF: DON'T !!

[HansPL]

Sorry if I was not clear.

I am going on to National Geographic Society website. As a electronic magazine subscriber, I am allowed to copy pages. I have to mark every page individually (they certainly do not make it easy) and resolution is about 40 dpi (according to someone on the web who measure it and according to my strained eyes).

Anyway, I highlight the pages I want to print, click a button "Print", and up comes a regular print box. I set the printer to Adobe PDF (I have not set it to default yet) and I go to Layout and set the orientation to Portrait (which I have to, in spite of setting default tot Portrait). Then, I print, and get a pdf file.

It works, but it is time-consuming.

Hans L

[Dov Isaacs]

Too bad that as a subscriber, they don't simply let you download a PDF copy of the magazine! That would really solve the problem.

          - Dov

[HansPL]

Yes, they are very unhelpful. To be honest, however, I guess I have to admit that every magazine issue probably costs a fortune to produce, so they are forcefully protecting their ware.

Well, I have many hours of work ahead of me.

Hans L