In Acrobat Pro 8, I have established 36 in x 48 in. as a custom page size. When I try to print a 36" x 48" Visio drawing that is in landscape orientation, Acrobat Pro 8 will render it, right side up, in portrait orientation (over two pages), even though I tell it "landscape" in the print dialogue box.

If I try to fake it out by specifying "portrait" in the print dialogue box, it gives me a warning that one or more pages are oriented differently. If I say "Proceed anyway", it will print it, right side up, in portrait orientation, over two pages. So either way, I'm going to get it in portrait orientation.

If I rotate the Visio drawing 90 degrees and set the Visio page setup to portrait, then tell Acrobat to print it portrait, Acrobat agains warns me that one or more pages is oriented differently (no it's not, I have rotated both the drawing and the page to portrait). If I say "proceed anyway", it will print that portrait image - landscape. On two pages.

I had this same problem with Acrobat Std 6; I can't find any help topics on this issue. Any ideas?

I should add that if I try to use Visio's "Page Setup" window to specify print settings for Acrobat Professional 8, it simply will not allow me to select "landscape" as an option. I can click on the radio button for "landscape" all I want, but it won't accept it.

You may have to go into the printer properties and select landscape (basically saying that you put the paper in that way). I have had mixed results this way and never remember the best way to do it as a result.

Also, there may be an issue with auto-rotate (select or de-select) in the Adobe PDF printer properties (you probably have to go to the settings menu).

I was finally able to get my 36 x 48 document to print to Acrobat correctly, but I still don't think the software is behaving properly.

I created two custom page sizes; one calld "36 x 48 portrait", in which page width is 36 inches, and another called "36 x 48 landscape", in which the width is 48 inches.

To print my 36 x 48 landscape page to Acrobat,I chose "36 x 48 landscape", but the only way the page printed correctly was if I also set Adobe PDF Document Properties/Orientation to "Portrait". If I set it to "Landscape", it prints Portrait.