I created a portrait orientation page using the Inspector - Document tab, selecting Slide Size - Custom Slide Size. and set the dimensions to a portrait orientation. (Annoyingly, I had to use "points" instead of inches like every real business uses.) I had my document, or so I thought, and created what I wanted.
It displays on screen in portrait mode. But when I went to print, Keynote slapped my work on a landscape format, cutting off a large portion of my layout.
Is there a way for Keynote to really do portrait or is Keynote incapable of dealing with portrait orientation? (After all, that is what is used on 99% of printouts in real businesses on Earth.) If that is the case it's a shame. I'll have to go back to Powerpoint and it's terrible interface.
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Me too Me too Me too Me too ReplyChanging Print Attributes in Keynote 10.1 I frequently use Keynote in portrait mode. I was able to create a custom "Portrait" theme to create the slides, but when I print them they come out in Landscape orientation. In the print window I can go: Presets -> Show Presets -> Page Attributes and it shows me that "Current -> Orientation" is Landscape, but nothing in the list is editable. Is there an obvious way to edit any of the page attributes displayed? Am I the only person who uses portrait mode with presentation software, or has Apple's usability really degraded below that of Microsoft Office and Libre Office to the point they do not have a simple switch between landscape and portrait orientations both for creating the slides and printing them?
Keynote cannot print in portrait I am trying to use Keynote in an application which requires portrait orientation. There is a description of how to do this in this blog which says to use the Custom Paper size option. I did this, and it does indeed format it as portrait on the screen. However, it does not rotate it to fit on the printer. It comes out a tall, narrow portrait-format image on landscape paper. All it really needs to do is rotate it.
Apple Pages.app no Auto Rotation option when printing? Apple Preview has this option when printing. Apple Pages doesn't appear to have this option. I have labels that are 4 inches by 6 inches that I wan't to print in landscape mode, just like an envelope is printed. 4 inches tall and 6 inches wide. The only way I can get the text and layout to work is to use Portrait mode and rotate all of the text. Why do we have to rotate all of the text in order to print in landscape? I am feeding the short edge of the label into the printer first not the long edge of the label. If I layout the addresses on the label like an envelope and print the label the text prints as if I had the page in Portrait mode when it's most certainly not. For comparison. who feeds an 8.5 x 11 page into the printer sideways with the 11 inch edge first. Very confused here. Switching the dimensions for height and length in page setup does nothing.