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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label landscape</title>
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<h3>Typesetting things in landscape orientation</h3>
<p/>It&rsquo;s often necessary to typeset part of a document in landscape
orientation; to achieve this, one needs not only to change the page
dimensions, but also to instruct the output device to print the
strange page differently.
<p/>There are two &ldquo;ordinary&rdquo; mechanisms for doing two slight variations
of landscape typesetting:
<ul>
<li> If you have a single floating object that is wider than it is
  deep, and will only fit on the page in landscape orientation, use
  the <i>rotating</i> package; this defines
  <code>sidewaysfigure</code> and <code>sidewaystable</code>
  environments which create floats that occupy a whole page.
<p/>  Note that <i>rotating</i> has problems in a document that also
  loads the <i>float</i> package, which recommended in other
  answers in these FAQs, for example that on
  <a href="FAQ-floats.html">float placement</a>.  The <i>rotfloat</i> package
  loads <i>rotating</i> for you, and smooths the interaction with
  <i>float</i>.
<li> If you have a long sequence of things that need to be typeset in
  landscape (perhaps a code listing, a wide <code>tabbing</code>
  environment, or a huge table typeset using <i>longtable</i> or
  <i>supertabular</i>), use the <i>lscape</i> package (or
  <i>pdflscape</i> if you&rsquo;re generating PDF output, whether
  using PDFLaTeX or <i>dvips</i> and generating PDF from
  that).  Both packages define an environment <code>landscape</code>, which
  clears the current page and restarts typesetting in landscape
  orientation (and clears the page at the end of the environment
  before returning to portrait orientation).
</ul>
No currently available package makes direct provision for typesetting
in both portrait and landscape orientation on the same page (it&rsquo;s not
the sort of thing that TeX is well set-up to do).  If such
behaviour was an absolute necessity, one might use the techniques
described in

<a href="FAQ-textflow.html">"flowing text around figures"</a>, and would
rotate the landscape portion using the rotation facilities of the
<i>graphics</i> package.  (Returning from landscape to portrait
orientation would be somewhat easier: the portrait part of the page
would be a bottom float at the end of the landscape section, with its
content rotated.)
<p/>To set an entire document in landscape orientation, one might use
<i>lscape</i> around the whole document.  A better option is the
<code>landscape</code> option of the <i>geometry</i> package; if you
also give it <code>dvips</code> or <code>pdftex</code> option,
<i>geometry</i> also emits the rotation instructions to cause the
output to be properly oriented.  The <i>memoir</i> class has the same
facilities, in this respect, as does <i>geometry</i>.
<p/>A word of warning: most current TeX previewers do not honour
rotation requests in DVI files.













Your best bet is to convert your output to PostScript or to PDF, and
to view these &lsquo;final&rsquo; forms with an appropriate viewer.
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<dt><tt><i>geometry.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry.zip">macros/latex/contrib/geometry</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/geometry/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>graphics.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics.zip">macros/latex/required/graphics</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>longtable.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools.zip">macros/latex/required/tools</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/tools/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>lscape.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics.zip">macros/latex/required/graphics</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/graphics/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>memoir.cls</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir.zip">macros/latex/contrib/memoir</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>pdflscape.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with Heiko Oberdiek&rsquo;s packages
  <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek.zip">macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>rotating.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating.zip">macros/latex/contrib/rotating</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotating/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>rotfloat.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat.zip">macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/rotfloat/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>supertabular.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular.zip">macros/latex/contrib/supertabular</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supertabular/">browse the directory</a>)
</dl>
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=landscape">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=landscape</a>
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