Default print orientation

Question

I have a landscape form in Word from which I create a pdf using Distiller 10.1.2. At create time, I set the Distiller advanced layout option to Landscape.
If I open the created pdf in Acrobat X Std, it displays in landscape, and also defaults to a landscape print as I expect. But if I open the pdf in Reader X, it displays in landscape, but the print option always defaults to a portrait layout, shrinking the form accordingly.
Is there any way to encourage Reader to offer a landscape print rather than a portrait print by default? Thanks for any help!
PS: exactly the same happens if I create the pdf using Word's PDF Maker 10.1

Answer 1

In the absence of any solutions, I've done quite a lot more investigation.
I discovered that some landscape documents created from Word using Distiller do behave correctly in both Acrobat Std and Reader: ie when displaying a landscape document, the print option automatically selects the auto option by default to offer a landscape print.
Yet I still have other landscape documents created this way that cause Reader to "misbehave" by offering a portrait print by default and so scaling the form down to fit across the width of a portrait page. I really can't see any difference in the source documents that work correctly and those that don't. In desperation, I used Word's Prepare / Inspect Document option on the documents that misbehave which reported that there were some Document Properties and XML elements in the document, which I then removed. Having done this, all the created PDFs of landscape documents now work correctly in Reader.
Clearly Reader is sensitive to whatever this additional data was, but it is strange that Acrobat Standard is not upset in this way. Anyway, a workaround at last will do me!!