This example shows how to create a PDF document rotated by 90 degrees for a landscape rather than portrait view.

We start by creating a PDF document. We apply a generic 90 degree rotation around the center of the document and rotate the drawing rectangle by the same amount. After applying our rotation we add some text to the page.

Set theDoc = Server.CreateObject("ABCpdf5.Doc")
' apply a rotation transform
w = theDoc.MediaBox.Width
h = theDoc.MediaBox.Height
l = theDoc.MediaBox.Left
b = theDoc.MediaBox.Bottom
theDoc.Transform.Rotate 90, l, b
theDoc.Transform.Translate w, 0

' rotate our rectangle
theDoc.Rect.Width = h
theDoc.Rect.Height = w

' add some text
theDoc.Rect.Inset 50, 50
theDoc.FontSize = 96
theDoc.AddText "Landscape Orientation"


Drawing the text rotated does not rotate the page itself. To change the default orientation of the document we need to apply a rotation to the root page object. By doing this we ensure that every page in the document is viewed rotated.

' adjust the default rotation and save
theID = theDoc.GetInfo(theDoc.Root, "Pages")
theDoc.SetInfo theID, "/Rotate", "90"
theDoc.Save "c:\mypdfs\landscape.pdf"

landscape.pdf