Two-column text, landscape pages

Question

I wish to create a pdf-file out of a tex-file, so that the text is printed in two columns, and pages are to have the landspace orientation. The standard way to do this, as I see on the Net, is to say

\documentclass[landscape,twocolumn,letterpaper]{article}

However on my system (Win 7, MiKTeX 2.8) it produces a pdf-file with the "portrait" pages. What's the reason of that?

Answer 1

Add \usepackage{geometry} and it should work. The options from the article class get handed to geometry, which then sets it up nicely.

Alternatively, pass the options to it directly: \usepackage[landscape,twocolumn]{geometry}