print pdf in landscape instead of portrait

[ak2263]

When I m converting my HTML to pdf it is printing in portrait mode due to which some content is missing. How can I convert it to landscape mode while generating pdf.

[smahnken]

If you can change/modify your HTML, you can accomplish this using CSS rules:

/* Landscape pages */
@page {
	size: 11in 8.5in;
	margin-bottom: 0.75in;
	margin-left: 0.9in;
	margin-right: 0.9in;
	margin-top: 0.75in;	
}

[pavankumarchaitanya]

I added the above change as:

<style>
/* Landscape pages */
@page {
	size: 11in 8.5in;
	margin-bottom: 0.75in;
	margin-left: 0.9in;
	margin-right: 0.9in;
	margin-top: 0.75in;	
}
</style>

It worked, thank you!

[Verdoso]

Hey there,

In the Template Guide (https://openhtmltopdf.com/template-guide.pdf) , it says that you can use the following CSS to get the PDF to be in landscape mode:

<style>
/* Landscape pages */
@page {
	size: letter landscape;
}
</style>

I tried but I saw no change in the documents. Is there anything else we need to do? Or do we have to change the dimensions "manually" as it has been shown here?

Cheers!

[costas80]

Hi @Verdoso , I use ...

<style>
    @page {
        size: a4 landscape;
    }
</style>

... and it works like a charm. Are you sure your overall HTML structure is correct?

[Verdoso]

Hi @costas80, Ok, false alarm, it was Spring caching the css in the static directory. It's weird because I was modifying the css and seeing the changes all along, and all of a sudden it stopped refreshing the css with new changes. I've tried every property I have seen to get it to refresh during development to no avail.

But anyway, it's not an openhtmltopdf issue, so thanks for confirming it works. Cheers!