Portrait & Landscape Layout in fixed layout EPUB

Is it possible to create a fixed layout epub that when viewed in portrait orientation on a device it displays just one page and when the device is flipped to a landscape layout it displays two pages (both pages still portrait layout) side by side?

This is the code you use to tell iPad to display in landscape mode.
[?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?]
[display_options]
[platform name="*"]
[option name="fixed-layout"]true[/option]
[option name="orientation-lock"]landscape-only[/option]
[option name="open-to-spread"]true[/option]
[/platform]
[/display_options]
Replace the brackets to carets and you're good to gol  Name the file:
com.apple.ibooks.display-Options.xml
and it's put in the META-INF folder
Message was edited by: JudithT

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