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Pooja05Pooja05 

Rendering a page as pdf with landscape layout

Hi,

 

I want to render a page as PDF but the table has too many columns and looks messy in a potrait style layout.

 

How can I change it to landscape layout?

 

 

thanks,

Pooja

shillyershillyer

Hi Pooja,

 

Try this:

 

<apex:page renderas="pdf"> 
<style>
@page
{
    size: landscape;
}
</style>
</apex:page>
 
  
 
Hope that helps,
Sati


Pooja05Pooja05
<apex:page renderAs="pdf">
<style>
    @page
    {
        size:landscape;
    }
</style>
    <apex:outputText value="Hi"/>
</apex:page>
 
I tried it, but it doesnt work. 


TehNrdTehNrd
Try putting the style tags in a css file, upload as a static resource then use the apex:stylesheet tag. This seems to work a lot better when use CSS in PDF generation.


tim-at-hastingstim-at-hastings
I'm missing something or there is an issue here. I have placed an @page { size:landscape;} block into a css file and uploaded it as a static resource named landscapePDF. This is what I have in my Visuleforce page...
<apex:page standardController="awhWorkshopSchedule__c" renders="pdf">
    <apex:stylesheet value="{!$Resource.landscapePDF}"/> bla bla bla...
 But when the PDF is rendered it is not landscape.ThePDF producer is iText 2.0.8 and the PDF version is 1.4(Acrobat 5.x)


TehNrdTehNrd
Try this:
 
 
<apex:stylesheet value="{!URLFOR($Resource.landscapePDF)}"/> 
 
 


tim-at-hastingstim-at-hastings
URLFOR() isn't doing it either. I removed the renderAs attribute from the page tag so I could look at the HTML markup and see if the link tag was even being added and what I found was the link tag was added but the href attribute was missing the .css file extension. So I did this...
<apex:stylesheet value="{!$Resource.landscapePDF}.css"/>
and then this...
 <apex:stylesheet value="{!URLFOR($Resource.landscapePDF)}.css"/
 
Both approaches added the correct href in the link tag but that still didn't solve the problem after resetting renderAs back to pdf. So I have confirmed that the link tag is being added and that the href is correct when rendering as a normal HTML page but when rendering as PDF it looks like its not picking up the stylesheet at all.


tim-at-hastingstim-at-hastings
Oops... You shouldn't add .css to the href. That has nothing to do with it. I added a class to my stylesheet and set a background-color and then set a div tag class attribute to that class. The pdf is rendered and the div tag shows the background color I set in the stylesheet. So the stylesheet is picked up but still no landscape. 
 
Is it an error with my css file...
@page {
	size:landscape;
}

.testico {
	background-color:#cccccc;
}
Message Edited by tim-at-hastings on  04-10-2009 03:22 PM


Christian ArroyoChristian Arroyo
Hi!! All of the posts are correct but they're only missing <head> tag. I have this code and works fine:
 
<apex:page renderAs="PDF">
  <head>
    <style>
        @page{
            size: landscape;
        }
    </style>
  </head>
  <h1>Testing Landscape</h1>
  Rendering PDF as Landscape
</apex:page>
 
 


Sumit Kumar 339Sumit Kumar 339
You have to use applyBodyTag="false" attribute in <apex:page tag as explained in Visualforce Developer Guide to render the PDF properly. I checked with the below code and I am able to render the PDF in landscape mode.
 

<apex:page standardController="Account" renderAs="pdf" applyBodyTag="false">
    <head>
        <style>
            @page{
                size: A4 landscape;
            }            
            body {
                font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';
            }
            .companyName {
                font: bold 30px; color: red;
            }  
        </style>
    </head>
<apex:page>


 


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