Landscape layout for one page

[CATERAF]

Hi,

I have a problem whereby I have a pdf document that has all portrait pages except for one.. and my landscape page won't behave (user error most probably!).

I have defined a landscape page layout and I have applied it to the topic (with chapter break - not that it inserts it) that I need to be in landscape. My primary target is also correct.
However, when I change my editing view to the 'landscape' page content still shows it as portrait. It does build it as a landscape page layout-wise but my table, which is too wide to fit on a portrait page, stays squished up on the landscape page as if it were portrait.
I have set my table properties so the width of the table is 100% but still nothing.. it won't accept the landscape table orientation.

Any idea what is happening please? I must've missed something..

Thanks!
Avril

[Msquared]

I'm sure that you've checked this, but what size is the body frame in your landscape page? Is it landscape size? That's the main thing I can think of off the top of my head.

The other thing I'd check is how the table is actually coded in the text editor. I'd want to check it the style setting for the table in the XML includes "width: 100%". I've found that depending on how you create the table, this doesn't always get included, even if that's what your table style asks for.

If I were you, I'd also want to work out why the Chapter break isn't working, although that obviously isn't affecting the selection of the landscape page in the output, which I would have thought that it would do if it hadn't been set correctly. But it would be nice to know, just in case it's linked.

[LTinker68]

However, when I change my editing view to the 'landscape' page content still shows it as portrait.

The XML Editor displays content using settings in the target that's set to be the master target. If your PDF target is set as your master target, and that PDF target is pointing to the page layout that you normally use, then you'll see all topics in the XML Editor using that page layout, and since that page layout is set to portrait, that's what you see.

There are a couple of ways you can see that topic in the landscape page layout in the XML Editor. Option 1 is to temporarily modify the PDF target to point to the landscape page layout file instead of the portrait layout file. You'll then see all topics in the XML Editor in that landscape view. When you're done editing that topic, you set the PDF target to point back to the original page layout.

Option 2 is to create a new PDF target (you can copy the first one and rename the copy), set its default page layout to the landscape page layout, then when you want to edit that one topic, you temporarily set the new PDF target to be the master target. When you're done editing that page, you set the original PDF target back to being the master target so you can edit the other topics.

[CATERAF]

Thank you both for your advice! I have gone through and followed your suggestions.
I now have the pdf document giving me a chapter break but the table is still not behaving itself.. it's determined to rebel!

I think the issue is now that my table isn't adopting the 100% to be the width of the page. I tried changing it to 'auto' but twasn't any good. Nor was 'fixed column width' and having it to 'not set' so that it follows the style.. going to have to play with this a bit more it seems.

Thanks again!

[CATERAF]

ah! problem solved. I had the page width settings applied in the 'body' (which was set for portrait width) so the table was obeying 100% of the width.. just a shame the width wasn't right! As normal, user error is my Flare problem..

Reason for the error: When I first started with Flare a few months ago I was only using webhelp so i applied page widths to the 'default' medium which naturally applied it to the print too. Oops. Since doing print I've been a bit more careful about the different mediums but the width hadn't affected portrait output so I didn't know it was there! I wonder what else is going to crop up as a result.. hmm..

All good now though -- thanks muchly for all your time and help. Greatly appreciative that I can post something up and there are people actively helping to resolve our issues!