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RE: Landscape and Portrait -- long document with tables
Subject:RE: Landscape and Portrait -- long document with tables From:"Laurel Hickey" <lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:49:12 -0700
If you're using MS Word: With inserting section breaks and using varied page
orientation, I'd recommend that you send a press-ready pdf to the printer,
not the Word file. Do the final proof on the pdf. You'll be able to rotate
pages as necessary and make sure that nothing reflowed significantly.
:-)
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Laurel Hickey
2morrow writing & document design
lhickey -at- 2morrow -dot- bc -dot- ca http://www.2morrow.bc.ca
What software are you working in? If Word: Insert >
Break > Section Break > Next page. Put one of these
before the landscape page, and another one on the last landscape page. Put
the cursor in the landscape page(s), then go into File > Page Setup and set
the Section to Landscape.
One thing to remember for double-sided printed
documentation is that you cannot have an uneven number
of consecutive landscape pages, unless you're really
clever about making a landscape page print on the back
or a portrait page. If necessary, you must insert a
blank landscape page.
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