Page orientation

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Is it possible to change the page orientation for one page only? I am using a table in research section and wish to have it displayed in the editor using landscape orientation. I want all the other pages in my project to remain in portrait mode.

With thanks in advance

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It is not possible.
And as per your description, I suppose that you are seeing the editor in Page View mode.
But the thing is that technically a Scrivener project doesn’t actually have pages.

One thing that you could do though, would be to create that table in another project, set to display in page view mode and have the page setup set to landscape.
Then link to that other project in your “mother” project.
You won’t be able to compile with that page at this point though. Not even using placeholders, if I am not mistaken.
You’ll have to either insert that page to the compiled file later on, or have the table be made an image of the proper dimensions, so that it fits a page sideways (that should allow you to compile/print it along the rest of the project).

That would actually be a good question to ask @drmajorbob .

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Would the answer not be to compile the child project first and insert the ‘printout’ with an <$Include> placeholder in a separate scene doc in the mother project?

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You don’t say what output you are compiling to. I’m going to guess PDF. If this problem faced me and failing finding something in the Scrivener compile settings within a reasonable amount of time, I’d live with it while in the writing phase, and for the final copy, I’d use Apple Preview (or other PDF editing software) to change the orientation of that one page.

I know this sort of page orientation control is trivial in Microsoft Word and probably most other similar products, but Scrivener is not Word, nor intended to be.

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No. The landscape table would end up cropped and portrait.

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Ok. Thanks for clarifying.

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Thank very much for this detailed answer. I think your solution is workable. Appreciated.

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The page is a research document and will not be included in the final output. I think Vincent’s reply will work for me. Thank you.

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Then, no need to have it in a separate project (with all the complications it implies.)
If it is already a standalone document but won’t display properly when inserted to the project, you can link directly to it on your hard-drive, it’ll open in the default app whenever you click the link.

All you need to do to create a link, is to drop the file in a Scrivener document (in the editor).
Or use the bookmark panel.

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