Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!jrg
From: jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Printer setup, how about fixing this in Version 7?
Keywords: printer setup
Message-ID: <32781@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Jun 89 10:46:59 GMT
Organization: Galloway Research
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First, I don't have my Mac system yet, so I am going on somewhat skimpy
info here, but it is my understanding that the printer characteristics
(primarily Vertical Vs. Horizontal printing) is just like MS Windows in
that it is a parameter of the printer, not the document being printed.
I find this (under MS windows, and soon under the Mac) to be very annoying.
It seems obvious to me that this should be kept with the document not the
printer. Once in a while I have experimented with printing the same item
in both formats, but once I decide it remains fixed.  Even if in some hard
to imagine case you wnat to routinely chnage the setup for a particular doc,
it wouldn't be any harder than it is now, and in the normal case it would be
SOO much easier (print a doc, setup, print an envelope, setup, print...ahahaha)
Or if that can not be arranged at least allow multiple virtual
printers such that dragging an item to the vertical printer would automatically
do a vertical setup and so on, even if it all comes out of the same device.
Though again keepig this with the document/item being printed seems the
best, if it could be put in at this point in time and be compatible.

apple!jrg	John R. Galloway, Jr.       contract programmer, San Jose, Ca

These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!