I need to save a file in .rtf format but in landscape. I am able to create the .rtf file and to save it but don't know how to create the .rtf so that the output will print landscape (ie. 90 degree rotation) on an 8.5 x 11 paper.

I don't know how helpful this is, but I created a simple RTF file in MS-Word, and then looked at it. I found the following in some of the formatting:

\paperw15840\paperh12240

15840 is 1440 * 11
12240 is 1440 * 8.5

A twip is a unit of measurement that is 1440 per inch. I would expect that paperw is paper width, and paperh is paper height. And that the number is the number of twips.

I don't know enough about RTF to know exactly where this plugs into the formatting. I also don't know if it is truely part of RTF. I took the same RTF document and opened it in Word Pad. Word Pad did not support the paperw and paperh.

None of this information may be useful to you if you are using a stock API for creating RTF files.

John R Lick
JohnRLick@hotmail.com

You can search the microsoft web page for "RTF Specification", and it will give you the verion 1.7 spec for RTF. This defines more than you probably want to know about RTF. Again this will only be helpful if you have control of the code that actually writes the file.

John R Lick
JohnRLick@hotmail.com

Thanks for the advice. I also found a description "The_RTF_Cookbook" in search.cpan.org, and tried some examples and they worked.

I'm curios: do you print the rtf file from your app?

defiant

regarding printing from my app.
So far I've figured out that I'll create an .rtf file from my app, and then pop that file up using a shell command and Word. The user will then decide what to do with the report.