PDF Files Saving in Portrait Format

brian1950 · Post by **brian1950** » 20 Jan 2010 16:53

Belated Happy New Year All

This has been driving me nuts today...

This morning I generated an All Relatives Query Listing for emailing. It is shown in landscape in FH's Query window. So far so good... but if I save it as a PDF file and open it with Adobe Reader, it showns as a portrait format with the columns consequently 'squashed' and data 'clipped'.

Other files I have saved recently are fine - landscape format saves and opens as a landscape A4 page.

I can't for the life of me work out if I have inadvertently changed something. Looking at FH's Preferences doesn't show anything.

Any ideas?

Brian

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 20 Jan 2010 17:02

What OS are you running is it a x64 version?

Can you try using the print option and print it to the Family Historian printer rather than going directly with the Save PDF option.

brian1950 · Post by **brian1950** » 20 Jan 2010 18:39

Hi Jane,

Thanks for the response.

Windows Vista x32 with all updates. FH v4.0.2.

Can you please explain Saving to FH Printer rather than PDF direct? The only options I see from the Query Window Print icon are PDF; CSV; Text.

Regards,

Brian

Post by **nsw** » 20 Jan 2010 21:50

If you click on print and choose the printer called 'Family Historian PDF File'. It should have a similar effect to the Save to PDF option but Jane is interested to see if this gives the same result.

PeterR · Post by **PeterR** » 20 Jan 2010 23:07

Brian,
I think I have been able to reproduce your problem. If I'm right, you need to get into Page Setup on FH's File menu, and you may have to open a diagram window to be able to do so. Then set the Orientation to Portrait instead of Landscape. It seems that FH cleverly keeps the Print Setup and Query Orientation in step, with both forced to be either Landscape or Portrait, but the Save as PDF appears to use the Page Setup. Perhaps this is a bug for Calico Pie to comment on and fix?

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 21 Jan 2010 15:50

I have passed it to Calico.

brian1950 · Post by **brian1950** » 22 Jan 2010 09:43

Many thanks, both, for your help and advice.

This morning I've had another 'play'. The results are inconsistent.

With FH's Query default settings, using Query's Save Query to File icon for a PDF file a landscape Query saves as a portrait formatted PDF page and columns are squashed together when viewed with Adobe Reader 8.

Leaving the above unaltered but changing File/Page Setup from landscape to portrait, as PeterR suggested, didn't make any difference.

However, then just changing the Report Row font to Leelawadee/7pt, landscape saves as a PDF landscape.

Now at least I have the one important file saved and readable for my US relatives, and the above might assist Calico Pie if there is a bug.

My grateful thanks.

Brian

brian1950 · Post by **brian1950** » 22 Jan 2010 10:03

Apologies... I forgot to mention...

Using FH's Print/Family Historian PDF File option (default but with File/Page Setup portrait and font as Leelawadee/7pt), Query landscape saves as a PDF landscape every time, with the added advantage that more columns are shown on the page.

Brian

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