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There are three basic types of print format. Many people have a difficult time understanding that there is a difference between what they typically think of as the orientation of the paper and the formatting of the print job to fit into a given set of parameters. The formats that people typically associate with the orientation of the paper are portrait and landscape. Landwide is the third common format of the print job.

Portrait

A portrait is something that you get done at Olan Mills studio, right? No, wait, we are talking about printers, so that is something that prints out on 8 1/2 × 11 paper with the words running left to right on the 8 1/2 inch orientation. But that is not exactly what is meant by portrait in this case.

In the case of Oracle E-Business Suite, portrait concerns those jobs that you want to have print as 80 characters on a line. Usually this equates to the situation where you are presented with the print running across the 8 1/2 inch side of an 8 ½ × 11 piece of paper as this is the standard print format.

Landscape

We are probably not referring to watching the sun set on a West Texas plain or standing and looking at the autumn colors dancing across the Great Smokey Mountains. We are also not necessarily talking about printing on the long side of the paper. We are talking about formatting the printout to fit 132 characters on a line (similar to a mainframe printout on green bar 25 pin feed paper). The 132-character printout is a common format for many reports that have been created to be just like something someone has always gotten, particularly if that print was generated by a mainframe computer at some point in the past. Often the printout ends up being along the long side of the paper, just because that is the easiest way to make 132 characters fit on a page. So it is not the orientation of the page, but the number of characters on the line that determines a landscape printout.

Landwide

Landwide is the least understood of all of the options because we really do not have a lot to compare it to in our minds. Landwide is a format that prints 180 characters per line. You either have to opt for tiny type, or determine what paper this should print on.



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Oracle 11i E-Business Suite from the front lines
Oracle 11i E-Business Suite from the Front Lines
ISBN: 0849318610
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 122

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