landscapepdfprinting
I wonder how to insert a landscape PDF best. Since my document will be printed, I tend to insert it as a portrait rotated left side up. But then it is not well readable on screen. And the Section heading as well as the page number are falsely rotated as well.
So what would be the common way to handle this case? At best with respect to both advantages, the landscape format on screen and printed as rotated portrait with the left side up?
THX!
With regard to your first question (sidewaystable which always rotates counter-clockwise) -- and quoting from p. 2 of the rotating documentation:
If the ‘
twoside’ option has been given to the main document class (either explicitly, or implicitly as in the default for book class), the package will rotate sideways figures according to the page number (this requires at least two passes through LaTeX). If you want the ‘twoside’ option, but want the figures always in one direction, use the ‘figuresright’ or ‘figuresleft’ options to the package.
While the quoted part uses the term "figures", the package options are also applicable for (sideways) tables.
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[figuresright]{rotating}
\begin{document}
\begin{sidewaystable}
\centering
(Table content)
\caption{A table}
\end{sidewaystable}
\begin{sidewaystable}
\centering
(Table content)
\caption{Another table}
\end{sidewaystable}
\end{document}
Instead of using table*, you could try tabular*. The *-form takes an additional <width> mandatory argument
\begin{tabular*}{<width>}{<column specification>}
which specifies the width of the tabular environment; in the regular form the width is determined by LaTeX from the contents of the tabular environment. Now, this might only help if you actually want to widen a table/tabular to a specific width. But, in your case you may need to shrink the table/tabular width. For this, there may be some tricks you can employ. However, some of these may be dependent on the journal requirements/specifications. Also, optimal solutions/choice might depend on the degree that your table extends outside the text block. I list a couple here by means of an example:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
Original\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\bigskip Individual column separation modified via \verb|@{\hspace{<width>}}|\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|@{\hspace{2pt}}c@{\hspace{2pt}}}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\bigskip Global column separation modified via \verb|\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{<width>}|\par
{\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{2pt}
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}}
\bigskip Resized horizontally (keeping aspectratio) via \verb|\resizebox{<width>}{<height>}|\par
\resizebox{20em}{!}{\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}}
\bigskip Original\par
\begin{tabular}{*{7}{|c}|}
Test 1 & Test 2 & Test 3 & Test 4 & Test 5 & Test 6 & Test 7
\end{tabular}
\end{document}
On a more semantic side of things, here are some suggestions to your code:
\begin{center}...\end{center} is antiquated in LaTeX, and often produces unwanted vertical spacing even though this might not be the case with your tables. Rather use \centering. The l2tabu package gives some mention of this, plus other references to obsolete code for LaTeX2e.*{15}{c} is equivalent to ccccccccccccccc (as in the example above). Of course, there is a limit to this use, since *{2}{c} is less useful than cc. However, readibility is at play here as well as ease of subsequent modification.
Best Answer
Here is a solution. This works fine for me, with acrobat reader 11