Microsoft KB Archive/27440

Supporting Portrait and Landscape in a Printer Driver

PSS ID Number: Q27440 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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= SUMMARY =

Please note that in Microsoft Word versions 5.00 and 5.50, both portrait and landscape printing in the same document are supported with the printer drivers for printers that support autorotation.

Word does not provide a printer driver that supports both portrait and landscape at the same time. It is possible to create a driver to do so; however, created or modified drivers are not supported by Microsoft Product Support Services.

= MORE INFORMATION =

To create a printer driver to support simultaneous portrait and landscape printing, you must modify a portrait driver to include Font Description Tables for landscape fonts. The control code for accessing landscape orientation should be entered at the “beginmod” setting in the Font Description Table. The control code for resetting to portrait orientation should be entered at the “endmod” setting.

The main problem to avoid in printing both landscape and portrait in the same document is improper print positioning from the edge of the paper. If portrait and landscape formatted text are each in a separate division on a separate page, the problem can be avoided.

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