Re: PDF landscape issue

[Simon Albrecht]

On 01.07.2017 18:44, Francisco Vila wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to know if something has changed recently about the way
> LilyPond creates landscape documents.
>
> In 2.19.58, a landscape document looks right in Evince and in
> Frescobaldi music PDF preview. In 2.19.62, the same document is rotated
> 90º counter-clockwise, which is not a problem for Evince as I can rotate
> it on a keystroke, but there is no such mechanism in Frescobaldi.
>
> What is really strange is that the properties dialog in Evince says the
> document is portrait, not lansdcape.

This is an intentional change. If I don’t confuse it right now, the 
#(set-paper-size "foo" 'landscape) syntax didn’t actually change paper 
dimensions, but set page rotation. Instead, it’s better to use 
#(set-paper-size "foolandscape") which will reliably set paper dimensions.

Best, Simon