Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!well!svc
From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printer setup, how about fixing this in Version 7?
Summary: Application Dependant
Keywords: printer setup
Message-ID: <12495@well.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jun 89 16:49:16 GMT
References: <32781@apple.Apple.COM>
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In article <32781@apple.Apple.COM>, jrg@Apple.COM (John R. Galloway) writes:
> 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.
> [ more comments removed for brevity ]
>
	Since document format is application specific, it is impossible to make
a global statement such as the above.  It is true that printer characteristics
are stored in a data structure called the printer record which is 'owned' by
the printer driver (and the calling application) BUT that does not in any way
prohibit the application from saving the printer record off with the document
and then restoring it later on.
	In fact Apple recommends that applications do this, and you will find 
many of them that do.  Most/All page layout programs do this, and I am sure
the same is true for many other types of products which rely on the page setup
infor for formatting/page size, etc.
	Hope that puts some/all of your fears to rest about printing on the
Macintosh.

 
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