Apple’s new operating system Tiger includes a long awaited feature. You can now rotate the desktop by 90, 180 or 270 degrees. This means that full size newspaper softproofing is now possible using a 30 inch monitor.
The picture below demonstrates what is now possible.
There is an updated version of this post available here showing an actual rotated desktop under Tiger.
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although display rotation is possible on macs with “coreimage” comaptible graphics cards, the image on that display is not rotated - the page is rotated 90 degress counterclockwise and the display itself is rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
look at the Close, Minimize and Zoom window control in a vertical orientation in the *upper right* corner of the screen, as opposed to the upper left, in a horizontal orientation!!
I could have done that with Acrobat a year ago!
That image was only meant to be there as an indication of what the desktop rotation can be used for. I will post some images with the real desktop rotation once I have some time.