I've recently encountered PDF from a latex document where the header are rotated.
As it's hard to explain I thought an image should be used:
Does anyone have any idea how to create such table?
[Tex/LaTex] Rotate Header table
rotatingtables
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You can indeed use the pdfpageattr command. You can do it as follows:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
text
\pagebreak[4]
\global\pdfpageattr\expandafter{\the\pdfpageattr/Rotate 90}
text
\end{document}
This will rotate the second page by 90 degrees. It should be obvious how to get different rotations.
An easy solution would be to use p{1.5cm} instead of l for the last column and change the title from % of transmitting flies to transmitting flies (%).
From what I can test it here, this makes the table small enough for one page and only changes the appearance of the table in a very small way.
For removing the ugly white space of the toprule and midrule (and bottomrule has it too but you can't see it against the white background) you can use specialrule.
For instance, \toprule becomes \specialrule{1pt}{0pt}{0pt} and \midrule becomes \specialrule{0.5pt}{0pt}{0pt}
Note that the first argument specifies the thickness of the line and the second and third argument specifying no space around the line. Note that it might cause problems with text in the cell "touching" the lines, but you can remove this by increasing the space within the cell.
The code would be:
\begin{sidewaystable}
\miniscule
\rowcolors{1}{gray!25}{white}
\begin{tabular} {lllllp{1.5cm}}
\specialrule{1pt}{0pt}{0pt}
\rowcolor{gray!50}
\textbf{Combination sand fly - Leishmania} & \textbf{Infective dose for sand flies} &\textbf{Used method} & \parbox{3.5cm}{ \textbf{Size of total prefeeding load}\\
(promastigotes/midgut)}
&\textbf{No. Promastigotes transmitted
per fly}
&\textbf{transmitting flies (\%)} \\
\specialrule{0.5pt}{0pt}{0pt}
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{P. papatasi - L. Major}\\ \textbf{\citep{War86}}} & $2\times10^6$ promastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{forced feeding by microcapillaries}} & unknown & \parbox{3cm}{range 0--1000 \\ 80\% females 1--100 \\ 20\% females 100--1000 \\ 5\% more than 1000 } & 11.4--35\% \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. longipalpis - L. mexicana}\\ \textbf{\citep{Rog04}}} & $2\times10^6$ amastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{artificial feeding through membrane}} & unknown & \parbox{3cm}{1086* \\ (86-96\% metacyclic promastigotes) } & unknown \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. longipalpis - L. infantum}\\ \textbf{\citep{Rog10}}} & $2\times10^6$ amastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{artificial feeding through membrane}} & \parbox{3cm}{$1.06\times10^4 \pm 2.1\times10^4$ \\(35\% metacyclic promastigotes)} & \parbox{3cm}{$457\pm122*$ \\ (95\% metacyclic promastigotes) } & unknown \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{P. duboscqi - L. major}\\ \textbf{\citep{Kim08}}} & $4\times10^6$ amastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{natural feeding on mouse ears}} & $1\times10^4 – 1\times10^5$ & \parbox{3cm}{range 0--100000 \\ 75\% females 600 and less \\ 25\% females more than 1000 } & 19.26\% \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. longipalpis - L. infantum chagasi}\\ \textbf{\citep{Sec12}}} & $4\times10^6$ promastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{natural feeding on mouse ears}} & $1\times10^4$ & \parbox{3cm}{1002 \\ range 10--10000 \\ 75\% less than 300 } & unknown \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. longipalpis - L. infantum dermotropic }\\ \textbf{\citep{Mai11}}} & $1\times10^7$ promastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{natural feeding on whole mouse}} & $8\times10^4$ & \parbox{3cm}{1127/13** \\ range 10--11100 } & 58\% \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. longipalpis - L. infantum viscerotropic }\\ \textbf{\citep{Mai11}}} & $1\times10^7$ promastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{natural feeding on whole mouse}} & $1.5\times10^5$ & \parbox{3cm}{104*/24**\\ range 0--1250} & 14.5\% \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. perniciosus - L. infantum dermotropic }\\ \textbf{\citep{Mai11}}} & $1\times10^7$ promastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{natural feeding on whole mouse}} & $5\times10^5$ & \parbox{3cm}{2350*/29**\\ range 0--42000} & 65\% \addlinespace
\parbox{4cm}{\emph{L. perniciosus - L. infantum viscerotropic }\\ \textbf{\citep{Mai11}}} & $1\times10^7$ promastigotes/ml & \parbox{2cm}{{natural feeding on whole mouse}} & $6.6\times10^4$ & \parbox{3cm}{88*/28** \\ range 0--500} & 33\%
\specialrule{1pt}{0pt}{0pt}
\end{tabular}
\medskip
\tiny
$^*$ an average dose of transmitted parasites per sand fly \\
$^{**}$ median of transmitted parasites per sand fly
\caption[table caption]{Table description}\label{rotfloat2}
\end{sidewaystable}
Best Answer
This should be a good start:
This is the result: