RTF Page Layout

[seanlacey]

I've been searching through the current RTF issues and status and wasn't able to find this, apologies if I missed it!

It would be nice to add a page layout option for RTF files. Often, clinical RTFs will be laid out in a landscape format and it would be good to have that option.

I took a look at the SAS produced RTF files and found the following line that I believe contains the width and height of the page (as well as margin sizes and other information):

\widowctrl\ftnbj\aenddoc\formshade\viewkind1\viewscale100\pgbrdrhead\pgbrdrfoot\fet0\paperw15840\paperh12240\margl1080\margr540\margt1080\margb540

It looks like the "paperw" and "paperh" tags specify the layout (here they are laid out to 11 by 8.5).

[rich-iannone]

Thanks for the suggestion on this. We will implement this once we revisit work on the RTF output format.

[mstackhouse]

The actual keyword that you're looking for in the landscape orientation is \lndscpsxn.

• \marglN is left margin (where N is twips - 1440 twips = 1 inch)
• \margr is right
• \margt is top
• \margb is bottom
• \paperw is the width
• \paperh is the height
• \headery is the header height
• \footery is the footer height

So if you put these all together (with a few other things), if you wanted a document with 1" margins, .5" in header and footer, 8.5" X 11" document in landscape, you'd need a string after the font and color tables that looks like this:

\paperw15840\paperh12240\widowctrl\ftnbj\fet0\sectd\linex0\lndscpsxn
\margl1440\margr1440\margt1440\margb1440
\headery720\footery720