[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #3530: Page orientation doesnt match composition orientation

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#3530: Page orientation doesnt match composition orientation
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   Reporter:  marisn                            |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  bug                               |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |          Milestone:  Version 1.7.0
  Component:  Printing                          |            Version:  Trunk        
   Keywords:                                    |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  All                               |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                 |  
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Comment(by JD):

 I'd be inclined to say this is a feature rather than a bug. Looking at a
 few other applications such as Acrobat Reader, Inkscape, and OpenOffice
 Writer, the orientation of the page on the screen is not necessarily
 linked to the paper orientation.
 For example, in Acrobat Reader if you turn off Auto Rotate and Center,
 then select the opposite orientation, your logical page stays the same but
 the paper is rotated thereby cropping the bottom of your logical page.
 Now I'm not suggesting this is the best way of doing it, but it may be an
 idea to put in an equivalent button in the Composer to automatically
 rotate the map to the page, rather than the other way round, so that the
 user can choose a paper source and be sure that it won't get changed
 behind the scenes.
 The biggest issue I see is that the print dialog box is the OSs standard
 one, so there is limited scope for changing it. So a new dialog would need
 to be implemented.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3530#comment:1>
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