Control Over Direction of Page Orientation Change

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karlhubner
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Control Over Direction of Page Orientation Change

Post by karlhubner »

We're preflighting some customer-provided PDFs on our PitStop Server (ver.17) which contain the occasional run of Landscape pages.

Preflight -> Page -> Different page orientations -> Change orientations of all pages to: "portrait"
appears to be exactly what we're looking for, except that there seems to be no control over the direction of rotation.

A counter-clockwise rotation (of the stray Landscape pages, to make them Portrait) looks to be the default behaviour.
This is, arguably, OK...
causing a "binding-on-top" situation when reading the once-landscape pages.

Unfortunately (and you knew there would be an "unfortunately"), due to bindery issues and margin-padding, these pages would be better presented in a clockwise-rotated situation, providing for more gutter margin (from what had been the bottom of the Landscape page).

Having exhausted my resources, I was curious if my more-learned collogues might have thoughts on our situation?

Thanks very much for reading.
abailescollins
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Re: Control Over Direction of Page Orientation Change

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This is possible with an Action List.
Something like:

Select by Page Orientation > Landscape > and you can then define which page box you want to use, say Trim Box
Rotate Page > -90, 0, 90, 180. you pick.

Test it as an Action List to make sure it gives the result you want.
You can then add the Action List to your Preflight Profile.
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karlhubner
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Re: Control Over Direction of Page Orientation Change

Post by karlhubner »

Thank you very much for the guidance!

I'll be implementing this shortly.
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