Find pages in landscape orientation

[evdbogaard]

Is there a way to quickly find landscape pages in a large document (> 700 pages) that consists for 99% of portrait pages?

Thanks in advance,
Ed

[PHK]

Show the Thumbnails pane, zoom out until the thumbnails are quite small, and then just navigate around the pane and you should be able to see the orientation of all pages.

[evdbogaard]

That's exactly what I do, but because in a 700 pages document that is a bit tedious I hoped there is a quicker way using a search.

Maybe something for a feature request: searching on page dimensions (i.e. page width > 21 cm).

Anyway, cheers and thanks again.
Ed

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello evdbogaard,

Do you need to just find those pages or also rotate them?
I think there was a similar topic in the past here in the forums - and I wrote a small JS that goes through all pages and checks whether their width is larger than their height, and if it was - the script was rotating them accordingly.

Kind regards,
Stefan

[evdbogaard]

Hi Stefan,

your guess is correct, I also want to rotate them to portrait, so I am interested in your script.

Greetings from ‘Max’-country,
Ed

[lev]

A script below will set page rotation of landscape oriented pages to 0°. Most of the script came from https://forum.pdf-xchange.com/viewtopic.php?p=138973#p138973
Make a copy of your file before running it.

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for (var i = 0; i<this.numPages; i++)
{
	var pageRect = this.getPageBox("Crop",i);
	var width = pageRect[2]-pageRect[0];
	var height = pageRect[1]-pageRect[3];
	if (width >= height) 
	{
		setPageRotations(i, i, 0);
	}
}

[Chris - PDF-XChange]

thanks lev

[evdbogaard]

Thanks, works like a charm!

I guess there is a similar way to find (portrait oriented) pages with a width larger then 21,00 cm.
It is not necessary to automatically change anything, but in a 500 page document it would be nice to find them in an quick and easy way.

How do edit the code for that purpose?

Oops, nearly forgotten: happy new year for all of you!

Ed

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Ed,

Please try this script:

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for (var i = 0; i<this.numPages; i++)
{
	var pageRect = this.getPageBox("Crop",i);
	var width = pageRect[2]-pageRect[0];
	var height = pageRect[1]-pageRect[3];
	if (width >= 596) //value in points - 1pt = 1/72 inch - 596pt ~= 210.256mm
	{
         console.println("The width of page "+ (i+1) + " is " + 
	  Math.round((width*25.4/72)*100 )/100 + " mm");
	}

}

When you run it - you should get a list of the pages that are wider than 210.255mm with the page width given in mm rounded to two decimal digits.
If you change the value in the if from 596 to 595.27559 you will get as close to 210mm as possible:

image.png

So if you have a mix of e.g. A4 and Letter sized pages - the script will catch all the Letter pages and skip portrait A4 ones. (Landscape A4 will be wider than our check - so such pages will still display in the output list.)

Kind regards,
Stefan

[evdbogaard]

Hi Stefan,

This too works like a charm, so thanks!

Kindest regards,
Ed

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]