#1058 Preview doesn't appear to notice that a document is in landscape

[Anonymous]

I am working on a document that contains rather wide tables so I stuck "landscape" in the document class and LaTex dutifully reformatted it accordingly. However, the previewer continued to display the output on a portrait oriented A4 page. Would it be possible to have an option available to tell the viewer that it should be using landscape?

[Peter Williams]

I just noticed this went in as "anonymous" (because I wasn't logged in) so I would now like to make it known that I'm the person who raised this issue.

[Tim Hoffmann]

Just to make sure: Do you use \usepackage[landscape]{geometry} or some other means of redefining the page layout? \documentclass[landscape]{article} is not enough because it just redifines the text position but leaves the page orientation as is.

If so, please provide a minimal example and check that the resulting PDF is displayed correctly in some other viewer.