#26 Rotation of landscape pages in all-landscape document

[Anonymous]

When a document has only landscape pages (attached) it scales the pages down to quarter size to fit onto the lower half of a portrait page in the booklet. You have to scale manually, approximately:
Even pages: -74 horizontal shift, 70% scale, 90° rotate
Odd pages: -222, 70%, 90°

Adding a portrait page doesn't help (also attached)

[Averell]

"Adding a portrait page doesn't help (also attached)"
Yes it helps, and solves the problem if you set the reference page to this page. With your example, in options, set the reference page to 4 and you will get what you want.
Nevertheless, what you say is interesting, because it shows a flaw in the conception : reference page and output page should be better connected.
I guess you are peterthevicar, because you posted as Anonymous.

[peterthevicar]

You guessed correctly, sorry I hadn't logged in. Thanks for the info, very interesting and helpful.

[peterthevicar]

An easier work-around for landscape booklets is therefore to add a single-page portrait pdf (attached), set this to the reference page, then remove it from the page list (Pages/Edit pages list).

[Averell]

Clever.
If you place your portrait.pdf before your file (as the first file), you don't have to change the reference page.