• Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 month ago

    PDF is in landscape orientation, you need it portrait (say someone scanned the documents in sideways, it happens annoyingly often), or some similar situation

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      1 month ago

      Well it would entirely depend on the document how well it rotates.

      Rotating isn’t the issue, really, just how well it rotates.

      Prints designed for portrait or landscape can be hard if not impossible to rotate properly.

      Pure text documents, no problem. edit well the usual fuckery, can be shit. but like some are just impossible to properly rotate if the graphics are designed for portrait or landscape or etc

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        1 month ago

        What do you mean “how well it rotates” ? If, e.g. an A4 portrait document is scanned in landscape it can be rotated back to portrait with no issues, no ifs or whats about it. It’s a simple file orientation change

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          1 month ago

          If you have specific graphics on the page which are designed to fit a portrait or a a landscape, they may not transfer well.

          Just remember the outrage people have over people not filming thing in landscape, because then one ends up watching a fullscreen video on pc that’s 80% black screen and only a sliver of actual footage on the screen, but we’re used to it.

          The page layout is incredibly precise work for most things related to print, however if you’re just using PDF to relay text, it doesn’t really matter at all. But PDF is something you can have as print quality, so you work on a project, you make a PDF, then you take that PDF to the print and they print it in whatever size or colour, but the layout will be the same.

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        1 month ago

        Could be completely misreading this here, but I’m assuming they’re talking about when you get some rando pdf and the pages are laid out in portrait but rotated at 90 degrees such that they’re in a portrait orientation, so all the writing is going up the page etc.