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7. The Orientation Menu

The following page orientations are available:

Portrait

This is the natural orientation for a given media; in most cases, the short sides will be at the top and bottom.

Landscape

This is a clockwise rotation of 90 degrees. Some PostScript producers get things backwards and rotate counter-clockwise so you might have to use the Seascape orientation instead.

Upside-down

This is a rotation of 180 degrees. Note that this is not a reflection so Upside-down may be misleading.

Seascape

This is a clockwise rotation of 270 degrees. Some PostScript documents that claim to be landscape have actually been rotated by 90 degrees counter-clockwise so you might have to use this orientation to get a landscape document to appear right-side-up.

If you explicitly force an orientation, MGv will preserve it if you reopen the current document.


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