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From: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing Page Setup Defaults:  How do I do it?
Summary: Suggested approach
Message-ID: <5156@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 3 Aug 89 17:25:40 GMT
References: <4157@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: zben@umd5.umd.edu (Ben Cranston)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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In article <4157@lindy.Stanford.EDU> philf@metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez) writes:
> ...I want the Page Setup defaults to select "landscape" orientation rather
>  than portrait, and to select "Larger Print Area"

At the risk of making an utter fool of myself (since I have never actually
tried to do this), here is a possible approach.

Cache a print record globally for your application (rather than or in addition
to the print record cached with each document).  You could ship your app with
an appropriate print record for the current level of Apple printing, or
whatever system you ship with the application.

As long as printing levels do not change you should be able to propagate
landscape and/or larger print area in this fashion.  You should detect the
case that printing level changes and the print drivers are giving you a
default printing record.  In this case, put up a dialog to the user:

            Printing level has changed.
            Be sure to do a Page Setup and set the Landscape and
            Larger Print Area options.

                     [OK]

then when he does so, cache the print record.

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* Computer Science Center Network Infrastructures Group
* University of Maryland at College Park