Page orientation in PDF cfreation with FPML not working (Add'l info)

[Kenneth Brody]

On 4/3/2017 7:25 PM, Mike Schwartz via Filepro-list wrote:
>      I'm doing some PDF print testing with the filePro fpml PDF printer
> driver (filePro 5.7.03.03 running on SCO Openserver 6).
[...]
>      However, the FPML command <page size="letter" orientation="landscape">
> doesn't seem to work to change the PDF format to "Landscape".  I've tried
> adding the command <page height="396" width="612">, but that still doesn't
> change the resulting reports to "Landscape mode.  The reports come out in
> "Portrait" mode no matter what I do.
[...]
>      By the way, since I am using the older filePro 5.7.03, I did try
> "Orient=" instead of "Orientation="

I am not aware of any issues with portrait/landscape, aside from "orient" 
rather than "orientation" in 5.7.

>      After finding an old email from Richard Kriess, I tried putting thius
> line into the output processing:
>
> qt(1,*)=chr("34"); or(50,*)="<page orient=" {qt {"landscape" {qt <">"

Note that you can use single-quotes in addition to double-quotes for 
attribute values, so this could be simplified to:

     or(50,*) = "<page orient='landscape'>"

[...]
> *****
>
> <page orient="landscape">
>
> 04/03/17       Test Company      Page 1
>
> OPEN PAYABLES REPORT
>
> *****

Did you make sure to set "allow embedded FPML on form" in the F8/Options 
dialog for that format?

>      What do I have to do to get the FPML print driver to turn the page to
> Landscape Mode?


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Kenneth Brody