[XeTeX] landscape mode with XeLaTeX

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Mon, 12 May 2008 01:07:51 -0700 (PDT) schrieb Daniel Greenhoe:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> How can I produce a pdf with landscape orientation using XeLaTeX. Here is what I have tried so far
>   xelatex -papersize=landscape filename
>   xelatex -papersize="a4 -l" filename
>   xelatex -papersize=a4:landscape filename
> 
> These give me the following error messages:
>   ** ERROR ** Unrecognized paper format: landscape
>   ** ERROR ** Unrecognized paper format: a4 -l
>   ** ERROR ** Unrecognized paper format: a4:landscape
> 
> I am running Miktex 2.7 on a Windows XP platform.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> Dan

E.g. with  \usepackage[a4paper,landscape]{geometry} or
\usepackage[dvips,a4paper,landscape]{geometry} in your document (the
second works only if geometry use the newest geometry.cfg). 

If you are using the KOMA-classes the option pagesize should work too. 


-- 
Ulrike Fischer