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From: Gillian on 8 Aug 2010 06:01
Hi. I recently created a figure, set the orientation to landscape using the orient command, then saved it as a pdf - which was mysteriously in portrait orientation. I have no idea why. And it turned out it wasn't just pdfs - other file formats did the same thing.

I tried stripping out all complications - I did a little test using the code below:
figure
plot(testdata)
orient landscape

Now the figure is landscape in print preview mode, but if I click on file>Save as and save it as test.pdf, then open the pdf, it's portrait. If, however, I say

print -dpdf test.pdf

on the command line, the pdf is then landscape. Does anyone have any idea why saving it as a pdf (or other file formats) would work correctly on the command line but not when I use the menus?
From: us on 8 Aug 2010 12:02
"Gillian " <g.damerell(a)uea.removethis.ac.uk> wrote in message <i3lv91$77g$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> Hi. I recently created a figure, set the orientation to landscape using the orient command, then saved it as a pdf - which was mysteriously in portrait orientation. I have no idea why. And it turned out it wasn't just pdfs - other file formats did the same thing.
>
> I tried stripping out all complications - I did a little test using the code below:
> figure
> plot(testdata)
> orient landscape
>
> Now the figure is landscape in print preview mode, but if I click on file>Save as and save it as test.pdf, then open the pdf, it's portrait. If, however, I say
>
> print -dpdf test.pdf
>
> on the command line, the pdf is then landscape. Does anyone have any idea why saving it as a pdf (or other file formats) would work correctly on the command line but not when I use the menus?

yes...
the menu SAVEAS calls HGEXPORT, which sets PAPERORIENTATION to PORTRAIT by default(!)...
to show how it works, do this

edit hgexport; % <- DO NOT CHANGE THIS FILE!
% go down to line #460 % <- ver 2010a
% set a break;
% run your saveas...
% step past the line
% manually set the orientation in the command window
set(H,'paperorientation','landscape');

us
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