Programmatically setting Orientation = 2 does not assure that the output will be generated in the expected landscape and orientation of the page.
Details
The following covers the default and optional settings of the Orientation and AutoRotate and their behavior.
Using Server 3.8.0
Default is Orientation = 1 (Landscape False)
Default is AutoRotate True
The expected behavior given the combination of settings are:
Default Output will be printed in Portrait, unless 60% of the output is in landscape in which case the pages will be rotated (page displayed with lines printed left to right)
With Orientation = 2, Output will be printed in landscape with the pages rotated (page displayed with lines printed left to right)
With Orientation = 2 and AutoRotate = False, the Output will be printed in landscape and the page will be not be rotated (printing will be from bottom to top)
NOTE: The programmatic setting will last for the duration of the print job and will revert back to defaults for the next job.
If the output doesn't conform to this behavior, there is the possibility that the Server is reusing virtual printers which have not been properly initialized. Take the following steps to assure proper behavior by restart the Print Spooler:
Run services.msc /s,
Select Print Spooler and
Select Restart
Exit Services
This will refresh the spooler, restart activePDF Server/DocConverter/WebGrabber, and delete any previously created virtual printers.
In the following sample code, you can comment in/out the lines for Orientation and Autorotate for different results. The output file will be in the default output directory for Server with the long unique file name (Used the timestamp on the file to locate the file of interest.) The following is the sample code:
Set server = CreateObject("APServer.Object")
server.Orientation=2 server.Autorotate=true
server.Startprinting
server.Test("testing landscape with Orientation & Autorotate") var=server.Wait(30)
server.stopprinting msgbox "Success" Set server = nothing
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