Re: Frescobaldi 3.1.3 and landscape music

[Aaron Hill]

On 2021-02-11 12:53 pm, tim@risingdove.com wrote:
> I just updated Lilypond to version 2.22.0 and Frescobaldi to version
> 3.1.3. I brought up a
> piece that's engraved in landscape orientation. Frescobaldi and
> Lilypond work fine, the piece
> is engraved -- but Frescobaldi displays it in portrait orientation, so
> it appears on its side!
>
> When I use Fresco's LilyPond|Engrave(publish) command, Adobe Acrobat
> shows it the same
> way! What have I missed?

Are you using

  #(set-default-paper-size "a6" 'landscape)

or

  #(set-default-paper-size "a6landscape")

?

The former simply rotates the content while keeping the normal paper 
dimensions.  The latter swaps the height and width values without 
rotation.  See [1].

[1]: 
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/notation/paper-size-and-automatic-scaling


-- Aaron Hill