Ability to place content outside the simple section maros

Question

Hi There

We start using the Scroll PDF Addon. There you have the possibility to use a macro, that turns the PDF export in either portrait or landscape.

This however works only if the macro is places outside any other macro of the page. I already reached out to the people at K15t, and they have no solution for this. But I think there should be one.

So my more general question is this:

Is there no way to place content outside a section?

I know there is the section/column macro, which would work, but is more difficult to handle for the users. (Less WYSIWYG)

I believe there should be at least some dirty hack to get around this.

And pardon me if this has been answered before, because I think its quite basic level, but I couldn't find any hint here.

Thanks

patrick

Patrick Joerg · Answer

Exactly, which is kind a silly right?

I don't know if the issue here is:

- One should be able to place something outside a section on a page

or:

- The page orientation macro should be able to be placed in a section.

Either way from the users perspectic this is not logic.

Brant Schroeder · Answer

@Patrick Joerg Looks like you what the documentation states as once you create multiple sections on the page then this issue will occur.

Patrick Joerg · Answer

It is actually well documented by the k15t people:

https://help.k15t.com/scroll-pdf-exporter/latest/cloud/change-the-page-orientation-165944642.html

And this works if no section is added. I'd have to look at the source for seeing what is really going on here. But the steps ar simple:

With just using a single page, as "one section" if you want, it works.

With using multiple sections, which is probably a macro, it gives exactly the error message that is on the page.