Re: PDF landscape issue

[Flaming Hakama by Elaine]

> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Simon Albrecht <address@hidden>
> > To: Francisco Vila <address@hidden>, Dev <address@hidden>
> > Cc:
> > Bcc:
> > Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2017 20:17:53 +0200
> > Subject: Re: PDF landscape issue
> > On 01.07.2017 18:44, Francisco Vila wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I'd like to know if something has changed recently about the way
> >> LilyPond creates landscape documents.
> >>
> >> In 2.19.58, a landscape document looks right in Evince and in
> >> Frescobaldi music PDF preview. In 2.19.62, the same document is rotated
> >> 90º counter-clockwise, which is not a problem for Evince as I can rotate
> >> it on a keystroke, but there is no such mechanism in Frescobaldi.
> >>
> >> What is really strange is that the properties dialog in Evince says the
> >> document is portrait, not lansdcape.
> >>
> >
> > This is an intentional change. If I don’t confuse it right now, the
> > #(set-paper-size "foo" 'landscape) syntax didn’t actually change paper
> > dimensions, but set page rotation. Instead, it’s better to use
> > #(set-paper-size "foolandscape") which will reliably set paper
> dimensions.
> >
> > Best, Simon
> >
>
>
> I was just going to write in about this since I just upgraded from 2.19.15
> to 2.19.63 and this is breaking my existing scores.
>
> This command:
> #(set-default-paper-size "legal" 'landscape)
>
> Used to set the paper size to legal, lay it out in landscape, and rotate
> it.
> Now, it sets the paper size to legal and lays it out in landscape, but does
> not rotate it.
>
> So, what is the command to rotate the page?
>


Nice to see that this is explained in the docs:

http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.19/Documentation/notation/paper-size-and-automatic-scaling#setting-the-paper-size

Swapping the paper dimensions without having the print rotated ... can be
achieved by appending ‘landscape’ to the name of the paper size itself:

#(set-default-paper-size "a6landscape")



Thanks,

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