Per-page printing orientation

[dboyer]

I have some schematic sheets that naturally lend themselves to landscape orientation (they are wide) and some that lend themselves to portrait orientation (they are tall).  I created a set of templates to use, one set for 11x8.5 and landscape, the other to 8.5x11 and portrait.  I was hoping that altium would read the orientation from the template's orientation option, but nope.  Printing a mixed set of portrait and landscape schematic sheets in a project prints them all landscape orientated with the portrait docs scaled terribly.

Is there a better way of doing what I had in mind?  I would rather not force all schematics to be landscape orientated if possible.  Things like FPGA banks look better portrait, IMHO.

[dboyer]

I don't know if it's supposed to be this dumb, but I think this might be a bit of an oversight on the printing design within Altium.  There is only one place with the option to utilize the document options for page orientation - the outjob settings for PDF generation.  I can't find an equivalent of the option in SmartPDF, at any rate.  See this link for more info:

http://aariologs.wordpress.com/2011/02/04/how-i-corrected-page-size-in-altium-designer-smart-pdf/

[DerekG]

a bit of an oversight on the printing design within Altium.  There is only one place with the option to utilize the document options for page orientation

Yes, I have found the best way is to select all the pages you want printed, then scroll to each page (one by one), navigate to your printer driver settings page, select "landscape (or portrait)", then select "print current page only".

A bit of a pain, but if anyone else has managed a fully automated way to successfully accomplish this, I would be interested too.

[dboyer]

The outjob isn't a terrible way to do it.  I have been adding each of our output files one by one to an outjob to help facilitate creating and keeping up to date our design outputs, such as the assembly drawing or the schematics.  It's actually pretty swank as each of the outputs magically goes into the right directory.

One click generates the schematics and then they can be printed or emailed as needed from there.

On a related note, does anyone know if there is a easy way to trigger every output in an outjob at once?  It looks like scripting might be the only way to do it