Create Document having Mixed Page Orientation

The Build from Scratch mode in Doc. Composer provide a page like editor to create document for the models. It allow user to create the content page by page. The size of the page and orientation directly affect how much content can be shown in the document. In some situation you may want to have a different page orientation just for specific page, i.e. to best use the page size to show a landscape style BPD. We will show you how to change the page orientation for a specific page in this article.

Suppose our document is in portrait style. To change the orientation for the next page:

  1. Press the Section Break button in Composer toolbar to insert a section break.

    Create section break

    Create section break

  2. Right click on the section break and select Edit from popup menu.

    Edit section break

    Edit section break

  3. In Section Properties dialog, uncheck Follow previous section checkbox to change the Page Orientation. Press OK to confirm.

    Changing page orientation for the selected section

    Changing page orientation for the selected section

  4. Now the newly added content will pick up the new orientation setting.

    The next page in different orientation

    The next page in different orientation

Remarks
Page Orientation setting is not applicable when exporting document into HTML format.

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