Rotate from Portrait to Landscape
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I am able to rotate the page from portrait to landscape however the form fields stay in the portrait orientation. If I rotate them from their properties dialog the writing direction changes but not the field dimensions.
Is there an easy method to rotate all the fields from a portrait orientation to a landscape?
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I tried rotating a page and the fields were rotated alongside with it just fine...
Original page:
Rotated page:
Is this not what you're experiencing? If not, how are you rotating it, exactly?
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Sorry, your right that is what occurs. What I was hoping find is a quick way of selecting ALL the fields on the landscape page and rotate them so they are correctly orientated. At present, I have to do it on an individual field basis. Any suggestions?
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If you mean rotate the page but keep all the fields in the original orientation then no, there's no easy way of doing that.
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That's a shame. I guess one needs to commit to a landscape or portrait page dimension before designing the form.
So here is probably a daft question then, can I widen and shorten an A4 portrait page (background?) such that if fits an A4 landscape page thus maintaining the text field orientation?
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The problem is that the fields match the user-space coordinates of the page, and those don't change when you rotate it. If you start from a true A4 page in the Portrait orientation, instead of rotating a Landscape page, then it would work fine. You can do that, for example, by re-creating the file with the right page coordinates, and then copying the fields over into it from the old version.
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Nice work around. I created a new PDF from a landscape-page Word file then copy and pasted the fields from the portrait-paged PDF to the new landscape-paged PDF. Then inserted the landscape-page PDF into the portrait-page PDF. Worked well.

