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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing Page Setup Defaults:  How do I do it?
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Date: 3 Aug 89 13:22:18 GMT
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In article <4157@lindy.Stanford.EDU> philf@metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez) writes:
>My application currently uses standard Print Manager Page Setup... and
>Trouble is, I want the Page Setup defaults to select "landscape"
>orientation rather than portrait, and to select "Larger Print Area"
>from the LaserWriter options.  Although the user may occasionally want
>to deviate from these defaults, they will be correct 95% of the time.
>
>Is there any way for me to "initialize" the dialog so that these
>defaults are selected?  A reading of IM and the TNs hasn't yielded my
>answer; or at least I've overlooked it if its there.

Nope, you can't.  There's no way.  You're one of many to find yet more
wonderful shortcomings to the Print Manager.  Guess we'll all have to
wait for System 7.0....


Ken







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