How to Set Document Orientation (for All Pages) in MigraDoc Library?

Question

I'm using MigraDoc to programatically generate a PDF file with text, images and tables.

I need to set Document Orientation (for all pages) in the document object to Landscape.

So I tried the following.

document.DefaultPageSetup.Orientation = Orientation.Landscape;

But I get the following debug assertion error.

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Assertion Failed: Abort=Quit, Retry=Debug, Ignore=Continue
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DefaultPageSetup must not be modified

If I click Ignore, it goes through and the Orientation is indeed Landscape.

However, I want to make sure I am doing this the right way.

So the question is, how do I set the document orientation for all pages in a Document using the MigraDoc library?

Here's the rest of the code (so it helps you get the context)

using System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging;
using MigraDoc.DocumentObjectModel;

namespace MyNamespace.PdfReports
{
    class Documents
    {
        public static Document CreateDocument()
        {
            // Create a new MigraDoc document
            Document document = new Document();
            document.Info.Title = "The Title";
            document.Info.Subject = "The Subject";
            document.Info.Author = "Shiva";
            document.DefaultPageSetup.Orientation = Orientation.Landscape;

Many thanks!
-Shiva

UPDATE:

SOLUTION: Here's the working code, based on Thomas' answer below (for the benefit of others who maybe looking for this solution).

// Create a new MigraDoc document
Document document = new Document();
//...
//......
PageSetup pageSetup = document.DefaultPageSetup.Clone();
// set orientation
pageSetup.Orientation = Orientation.Landscape;
// ... set other page setting you want here...

Demand

DefaultPageSetup applies to MigraDoc. Actually this is a MigraDoc question, not a PDFsharp question. – Doorframe

Hi, Shiva, you just solved my problem for me. Thanks for that :-) Although your solution didn't contain the information that you need to assign the modified pageSetup to the section object. But anyways: thank you :-) – Destroyer

Answer 1

Assign DefaultPageSetup.Clone() to the PageFormat of your section and modify that.

Then you modify a copy of the default settings and no assertion will fail.

With your approach, all documents would default to landscape - not just the document you set it for.

This answer applies to MigraDoc only as only MigraDoc uses DefaultPageSetup.

See this post in the PDFsharp forum where Clone() is used to create a copy of the DefaultPageSetup:

Doorframe

Thanks Thomas! Based on your answer and the link, I fixed the code to clone the DefaultPageSetup and apply the setting on that. Updated my question with the code also. – Demand