General ⇒ Problem with landscape in MiKTeX 2.7

[SMM]

I have a problem to make a landscape document since I install MiKTeX 2.7.
I've used portland package, and \landscape command for this, earlier, but now
it is not working. Also, if I use \documentclass[landscape]{article}, the text looks
like landscape, but the paper below is still portrait.

Does anyone know what is the problem? Thank you.

[localghost]

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Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[SMM]

Thanks for quick respond.

I attached two examples, one with landscape options in documentclass command
an one using the portland package, and also pdfs I get after latex, dvi2pdf.

Bye, SMM

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi SMM,

welcome to the board!
The portland package is very old and as you could see it's not working perfectly. For inserting landscape oriented pages I recommend to use the lscape package instead, if dvi output is needed or pdflscape for pdflatex.

If the whole document should be in landscape orientation the mentioned packages are not needed. The landscape option to the article class is good but not enough. It interchanges the values of \paperheight and \paperwidth but doesn't touch \pdfpagewidth or \pdfpageheight. For pdflatex it could be fixed by

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\setlength{\pdfpagewidth}{\paperwidth}
\setlength{\pdfpageheight}{\paperheight}

perhaps see Paper sizes with pdfTeX or just load the geometry package instead:

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\usepackage{geometry}

it will correct it too.

Stefan

[SMM]

It works!! Thank you!!
Bye...