landscapetwo-column
I wish to create a pdf-file out of a tex-file, so that the text is printed in two columns, and pages are to have the landspace orientation. The standard way to do this, as I see on the Net, is to say
\documentclass[landscape,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}
However on my system (Win 7, MiKTeX 2.8) it produces a pdf-file with the "portrait" pages. What's the reason of that?
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.\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{Fancy page header}
\fancyfoot[C]{Footer}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage{afterpage}
\usepackage{pdflscape}
\begin{document}
\kant[1]
\afterpage{
\clearpage
\begin{landscape}
\begin{figure}[htb]
\centering
\rotatebox[origin=c]{-90}{
\begin{minipage}{.5\linewidth}
\includegraphics[scale=.9,angle=90]{example-image-a} %% adjust angle
\caption{Figure caption is coming here and it will be by the side of the figure}
\end{minipage}%
}
\end{figure}
\end{landscape}
}
\kant
\end{document}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[C]{Fancy page header}
\fancyfoot[C]{Footer}
\fancyfoot[R]{\thepage}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\begin{document}
\section{This is a section}
\begin{figure}[!htb]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1.1,angle=90]{example-image-a} %% adjust angle and scale appropriately
\caption{Figure caption is coming here and it will be by the side of the figure}
\end{figure}
\kant
\end{document}
Best Answer
Add
\usepackage{geometry}and it should work. The options from the article class get handed to geometry, which then sets it up nicely.Alternatively, pass the options to it directly:
\usepackage[landscape,twocolumn]{geometry}