Abscissa and ordinate axes when defining sheet sizes in the "Resize Pages" window

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Jensen Head
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Abscissa and ordinate axes when defining sheet sizes in the "Resize Pages" window

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When setting a custom paper size, the horizontal and vertical dimensions are reversed. In the PDF-XChange Editor, the vertical dimension comes first, and the horizontal dimension second. Although, most often, first comes the horizontal dimension (X-axis, length, width or depth) and only then the vertical axis (Y, height). For example, the screen resolution in landscape orientation is 1920 × 1200 pixels, and not vice versa.
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Re: Abscissa and ordinate axes when defining sheet sizes in the "Resize Pages" window

Post by Tracker Supp-Stefan »

Hello Jensen Head,

It is the "Landscape" setting that reverses those.
If you select "Portrait" then the first value would be the X axis and the second would be the Y axis:
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So when you specify e.g. 100 x 200 mm and then "Landscape" your page is originally set with 100 mm on the X axis and then rotated to Landscape so it does appear like the two values for X and Y get swapped.

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Stefan
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