Both landscape and portrait for pdf with Flying Saucer/iText

Question

Is there a way to set different page styles with Flying Saucer/iText? I need to have the first couple of pages in landscape, then switch to portrait at a certain page and out.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Nevermind, found the answer. For anyone interested, this is how you do it:

@page land { size:landscape; }
@page port { size:portrait; }
.landscapePage { page:land; }
.portraitPage { page:port; }

voilá!

Answer 2

I also want to know! THKS.

Answer 3

I'm also trying to switch to landscape in mid document. I have the pages switching just fine, however the text formatting still appears to be formatting to the portrait width, even on landscape pages.

Any ideas?

Answer 4

For anyone still stuck with the problem Derek mentioned, I've found that I need to explicitly set a width on the element that is switching its layout. So with the example div

<div class="portraitPage">
    <p>Some page content in portrait</p>
</div>
<div class="landscapePage">
    <p>Some page content in landscape</p>
</div>

it will correctly format a portrait page followed by a landscape page, but the content in landscape page will only be as wide as the portrait page, even if the @page land declaration contains a width. What I needed was to set the width directly on the div that has the relevant class applied, so the declaration is something more like

.landscapePage { page:land; width: 29.7cm; }

Be careful though that the width should take into account any margins or padding applied via the @page declaration block.