From: hurd@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter L. Hurd)
Subject: WP51, land/port page # hellishness.
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 02:10:58 GMT

Thanks to all who replied to my first posting,
especially tiemeyer@ssc.wisc.edu & judie@waikato.ac.nz,
now the problem was this,
I have a page of stuff, a Table intro paragraph, The Table, and The table
extro paragraph.  The Table is too wide for a portrait page, so I turned
the page into a landscape, and it looks great, 'cept for the page number.

Respondents poseted me several suggestions on how to get a portrait style
page number (so that the page number is where it should be in the bound
product, but the page substance is on there sideways).  Two suggestions in
particular which I pursued were:
1) turn off page numbering, add in a text box with ^B, make it real small,
stick it in the corner, rotate it so it faces right.
2) leave the page potrait, stick all the text in a user box, rotate the box,
let the usual page numbering happen.

Problems,
1)  The manual makes quite a fuss about putting the Text Box at the top
of the current page (the one to be printed on) and set skip page to zero.
Fine I do this, and get the print preview (shift f7, 6) null result, no
page number.  When I print page (shift f7, 2) I get the first line of text
on one page, a blank page, then the rest of the text and table on a third
page!  So I move the text box to just before the first text character,
after the codes for page # off, landscapre page new margins &c, print
preview now shows the page # right where I want it to be (yippie!), but
when I print page, I get the first line of text on one page, the page #
just how I want it on the second page, and the rest of the text & table on
a third page (booo!).  So I move the text box to the bottom of the page,
before the codes for turning everything back to portrait, and I get the
same, only different, print preview looks perfect, but the page comes
on one page, the page number on a second (looks fine though), and a third
blank page.
  Now, all of these are producing multiple pages from a print single page
command, and the last two are perfect in print preview, and if I print
the whole document they all come out as an increment in page # of one.
Is this some sort of hardware (HP laser, novell LAN) problem with WP
thinking one page and the printer thinking three?
2)  This also looks peachy on print preview but produces two pages from
a single page print command, first one has the cool page #, second has the
user box, which includes my text surrounding the Table, comes out sideways
just like I want.

Is this as good as I can get, will I just have to photocopy the two pages
onto a single product page, or can someone tell me what is mis-firing?

Thanks in advance,

PS while admiring the perfect print preview product, but before trying to
print it, I ignored the mail from a kind soul who had sent me WP's user
support #, could someone post WP's net address, or their support #?

More thanks in advance,

-- 
Pete Hurd, hurd@sfu.ca|
Behavioural Ecology   |
Dept.Biol.Sci., SFU.  |
Burnaby B.C., Canada  |"As miserable as ever" replied the enlightend Kyogen.
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