It looks to me like either the media size is incorrect, or possibly spacing or point size, in any event I don t have a PCL printer to test this on, and insufficient knowledge to know if this is a correct PCL file. I have had a look into the PCL file, and while I am *not* a PCL expert, I see that it selects landscape mode, which is why the data which follows, although drawn as landscape on a landscape page, is rotated onto a portrait page.Īt which point I'm going to give up and leave this to the PCL expert. Load a PDF document Dim loadedDocument As PdfLoadedDocument New PdfLoadedDocument('././Data/Barcode.pdf') Create a new PDF document Dim document As PdfDocument New PdfDocument() Set the orientation PdfPageOrientation. The area you have highlighted is missing when rendered as well as when converted to PDF, so if there is a problem, its not a problem with the PDF output. Possibly Foxit is being 'helpful' by rotating the page so that the text is horizontal. Unlike your screenshot, the PDF file produced by GhostPCL is a landscape document printed on portrait media when viewed in Adobe Acrobat. Because I tried -sPAPERSIZE command but it doesn't help me. > can use to convert attached pcl correctly to pdf. Could you please give me full command which I It does htis based on the dominant text direction, and without seeing the file I can't tell what the dominant text direction is. You need to use the -sPAPERSIZE switch, or some other method to alter the media.Ģ) Possibly the AutoRotatePages parameter is rotating the whole thing back. From what little I know the 'ORIENTATION' in PJL sets the orientation of the output, not the media, so its possible that the output is falling off the media because it is landscape on portrait.

pdfwrite defaults to portrait media (A4 or Letter). How to Change the Orientation of a PDF File Temporary PDF Orientation Change. I can think of two possible problems, I can't be sure which (if either) is the one being experienced from the description.ġ) There is no attempt apparently being made to change the media. You will need to supply a test file for us to look at. > -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=file.pdf file.pcl SET JPL commands given as parameters don't work. I trying to convert PCL with landscape orientation to PDF.

How to change pdf orientation