[Tex/LaTex] Problem with rotated pages (pdflscape package) and double-sided printing

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I am using the pdflscape package to rotate pages with wide tables on them. This works fine, but there is a problem when I print the document in duplex mode.
Its a double-sided document (left and right pages, using the twoside option from the scrbook document class).

The right pages print correctly,
but the left pages (only those set in landscape mode) are printed upside down. How can I fix this?

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No example supplied, so this is untested, but if you replace occurrences of 90 in a local copy of lscape.sty with

\ifodd\c@page\else-\fi 90

It might do something useful.

UPDATE In comments it seems that this works:

\def\myrotate{\ifodd\c@page\else-\fi 90}
\g@addto@macro{\landscape}{\PLS@Rotate{\myrotate}}

You might need to switch to

  \def\myrotate{90}

locally in some environments, depending on needs.

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[Tex/LaTex] How to make landscape mode rotate properly in a twoside book

If you use rotating then the default, for two-sided documents, is to rotate the page according to the page number. I think this is exactly what you want.

Unfortunately rotating doesn't do the same thing as pdflscape, in that the pages are not rotated in the PDF viewer. I found this related newsgroup message, but I don't believe there was ever a resolution.

But you say you're most concerned with the final printed output anyway, so I think rotating should be fine for your purposes?

[Tex/LaTex] sidewaystable vs landscape environment (pdflscape-package) for landscape tables spanning double pages

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}

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