Landscape printing

[chrman]

I asked this once before a long time ago but no-one seemed to know. Does anyone know how to have your printing automatically set to landscape mode? The only way my stuff prints properly is landscape mode and the way it is now the user has to select landscape mode every time they print which is a pain.

Any hints appreciated.

[bobriggs]

No way I know of.

It's a function of the printer control panel. - and thank goodness it can not be modified by another program! - even a non-browser! It is changeable in a single instance of the browser (and it will remember it (for that instance only).

The only way I can think of to change this behavior is through javascript, but I don't know of any function which does it.

I tried a search for javascript landscape [search.microsoft.com] on msdn.microsoft.com, but it returns only 3 results, none relevant.

But read this: Scripting support for web page printing [msdn.microsoft.com] from MS ...we provide support for this as part of the 'basic' functionality of our freely-distributable ScriptX ActiveX control...

(edited by: bobriggs at 3:06 am (utc) on Jan. 7, 2002)

[chrman]

You link did not take me to the document that you reference but i think that i have already read the page you intended to show. It wasn't all that helpful though and just confused me more. No worries, it will have to stay the way it is.

[bobriggs]

Whoops, sorry, I put a quote at the end of that url out of habit. There are also a few redirects there (I think). I just changed my post; try again, look at the bottom of the right frame. I can't get a link to what they're talking about either. Maybe a search on google for 'MeadCo Scripting Factory' which MS referenced would be helpful.