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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

2816.0. "PORTRAIT/LANDSCAPE IN 1 PAGE" by ISIDRO::TORRECILLA () Mon Jun 07 1993 17:19

    Does anyone know if it's possible to obtain some part of the page in
    landscape format and other part in landscape?
    
    I'm trying with different control blocks and if you change from
    portrait to landscape and viceversa it changes page.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Nieves
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2816.1COMICS::BARHAMNorbert:Tue Jun 08 1993 08:4611
    Hi Nieves,
    
    I think you should take a look in FREE::WPS-PLUS. A quick scan shows
    likely notes are 184, 609, 778 and 1151.
    I believe this is not possible in WPS-PLUS v4. It did work in previous
    versions but was an undocumented, unsupported feature, that a lot of
    customers made the most of but which has now been 'fixed' !
    
    HTH,
    
    Clive
2816.2Change due to new features.WARNUT::RICESteve Rice @OLOThu Jun 10 1993 17:0527
    This only used to work because the text was positioned on the page
    using a combination of <CR>, <LF> and SPACES, it was then possible to
    force a page orientation change in the middle of job without to much
    trouble.  WPS+ now uses "Absolute Positioning" to place the text
    exactly where it is needed on the page.  It is still possible to change
    from LANDSCAPE to PORTRAIT in the middle of printing a page (with some
    effort) however the results are probably not going to be what you
    wanted - when I achieved it what I got was, for example, half a page in
    Portrait, then underneath was half a page of Landscape but starting
    halfway across the page (the formatter "remembered" that we were
    already halfway down a page) very confusing - It looked a bit like this:-
    
    		----------------
    		|PPPPPPPPPPPPPP|
		|PPPPPPPPPPPPPP|
		|PPPPPPPPPPPPPP|
		|PPPPPPPPPPPPPP|
    		|LLLLLLLL      |
    		|LLLLLLLL      |
    		|LLLLLLLL      |
    		|LLLLLLLL      |
    		|LLLLLLLL      |
    		----------------
    
    	I would strongly recommend you look in FREE::WPS-PLUS
    
    	Steve.