Microsoft KB Archive/45987

Imported HPGL Plotter Files Are Rotated 90 Degrees

PSS ID Number: Q45987 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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When importing HPGL plotter files into Word, a plotter file saved as “horizontal” imports into Word “portrait” and a plotter file saved as “vertical” imports as “landscape.” Although it appears that Word is rotating the orientation of the HPGL file, it is not because the default orientation of a plotter is 90 degrees different from printers. Word is using the orientation as if determined by a printer.

When printing to a plotter in “horizontal” orientation, the long edge of the paper becomes the “top.” When printing to a plotter in “vertical” orientation, the left edge becomes the “top.” To maintain the orientation as given by the HPGL file, Word always aligns the top of the file in the direction specified by the HPGL file, i.e., a “vertical” HPGL file imported into Word places the top of the graph towards the left edge of the page. It appears as though there is an inadvertent rotation of the graph.

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