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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: GPS_tour.pdf - "landscape" pages
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 21:47:36 -0500
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Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote in message ...
>I just looked into GPS_tour.pdf from www.gnat.com, and was slightly
surprized:
>several pages are rotated (like printed in landscape mode) - for
example,
>page 29 (and there are others). I wonder, is it intentional, or it is
an Acrobat
>joke, or it is the result of a particular screen parameters/Acrobat
View settings
>(15" monitor 1024x768; Acrobat 5.0, View = Fit Width, Continuous).

That's not unusual in documents meant to be printed. If there is a
diagram that doesn't fit in the vertical formatted, it can be rotated to
fit. The ACATS documentation that I inherited has several pages like
that. I agree that it's a pain when reading on a screen.

              Randy.