From: Noel Faux (noel.faux_at_med.monash.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 20:00:06 EDT
Sorry if you got thsi twice.
capron_at_pets911.org wrote:
>On 26 Apr 2004 ,Noel, wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm a new user of abiword :) I'm trying to create a table in a document
>>which can only fit if the page is orientated as landscape. I've searched
>>the web and played with abiword without success. Is it possible to have
>>a document which contains a mixture of portrat and landscape orientated
>>pages. If so how is it done? If not are there plans to create this feature?
>>
>>
>
>Noel -
>To get the table on the same page as the Portrait copy, you have to reduce the
>table font by at least 20% in order to fit the width.
>Otherwise, to have the first page as Portrait and the second page as Landscape,
>you need to start a new document for the landscape page. This works okay if you
>name each document the same. EG:
>samename1.abw
>samename2.abw
>samename3.abw, etc.
>If the first page is portrait, second is landscape, and third is portrait, you
>need a separate document for each page in order to print out right.
>That's how we do it.
>
>
Ok thanks. To me that's very messy. Do you know if there are any plans
to add page orientation into the options in the frame style section, as
that looks to me like the most obvious place to cater for this. So you
can have one complete document rather then 2 or more.
>Capt. Ron
>http://www.pets911.org
>
>
>
Cheers
Noel
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