Thanks Egg,
I think you missed the part where I mentioned that the layout is the same in either portrait or landscape. The problem is that I have a nasty tendency to visualize graphics with a level orientation. I found that rather than rotating the page, I can turn my laptop on it's side and work on the graphics in that manner. This make using the mouse much more awkward, but I'm getting used to it. :P

The real problem is each ticket or area is customized, working in portrait mode is awkward to manage all the bits and pieces. I prefer turning the page on it's side in landscape mode.

As for printing, every print driver is different, and there are many applications interpreting PDFs with different results. I have wasted many frustrating hours trying to get a landscape orientated file to print properly. A burden I don't want to pass onto my customers. So I like to send PDFs out in portrait, and request they use Adobe Acrobat to view/ print the files.