Auto Orientation

Hi;
I'm trying to learn flash builder. Making a simple application used tab views.
I designed the page, but when I switch orientation, some objects not seen
on a screen.
How can I adding auto orientation to my application.
peace

Hi,
This is the FormCentral forum, You may want to check the Acrobat forum: http://forums.adobe.com/community/acrobat
I believe the orientation that you initially scanned in your pages will be the orientation saved in the PDF file. Now, you will need Acrobat to manually rotate the specific-page-orientation. Depending on which version of Acrobat you have, you should be able to either change the view of a page by selecting 'View/Rotate' or 'Documents/Rotate Pages'. Acrobat will not rotate it for you automatically after scanning.
Thanks,
Lucia

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Hope it was not confusing and I cant wait to check out your valuable guidance!
All the best and thanks a lot for your time.

Hi there all!!
Still I have no answer for my question No1, BUT I could find my answer to the 2nd question and here it is for your kind notice:
Special thanks to Daniel Dura
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/screen_orientation_apis.html
I just added this code to my first Frame:
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I need to make it so that the app is permanently in landscape.
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