Controlling Page Orientation

When you have a table that is tall and skinny, it makes sense to print in portrait layout. But when you have a table that is wider than it is tall, a landscape layout makes more sense. By default, if you don't change any options, the ODS PRINTER destinations create portrait output. Just as with RTF output, you can change the orientation by using the system option ORIENTATION=.

OPTIONS ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE;

However, it is not possible to switch orientations within a single instance of ODS Printer or ODS PDF output. Although this capability is supported for RTF output, a single Printer family file created with ODS must be the same orientation throughout. A single PDF file created with Landscape orientation is shown ...

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