Export to pdf only exports in landscape mode
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Hello All, I am finalizing some patent drawing with sketchup. Everything looked well until I went to export to pdf: everything comes out in landscape mode and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell the 2D exporter to export to portrait mode. Is there a solution that I'm missing or do I need a plugin or other special tool?
Thank you kindly, Keith
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It's been a long time since I've played with the PDF export directly from SketchUp. Have you tried resizing the SketchUp window to a vertical rectangle? There aren't any settings in the Options for adjusting page orientation.
Frankly, this seems like the point where you should be using LayOut since you can set up the page layout as needed and you have much better options for text and leaders and so on.
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Thanks, I'll give layout a try. Quick question. Do you know whom I can send a message to about buying a premium account? It seems you only accept paypal and I want to pay with a credit card. Sorry for going off topic.
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Send a PM to Rich O'Brien or to Mike Lucey. They should be able to help you out.
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@kallen said:
Hello All, I am finalizing some patent drawing with sketchup. Everything looked well until I went to export to pdf: everything comes out in landscape mode and there doesn't seem to be a way to tell the 2D exporter to export to portrait mode. Is there a solution that I'm missing or do I need a plugin or other special tool?
You can also try to use a virtual pdf printer like PDFCreator: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
There (since it works like a printer), you can set page orientation although indeed LayOut would be the best choice.
@kallen said:
It seems you only accept paypal and I want to pay with a credit card.
You can use PayPal to send money from your credit card even if you do not have a PayPal account.
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Gai... Don't want to use PayPal on principle and if you want to use a credit card it makes you go through PayPal.
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Okay, principle taken. However, to obtain and maintain a full fledged ("own") credit card system, it would be burdened with much more extra expenses as it seems to worth.
That is: I guess. I have never been good at maths.
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