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From: rdclark@Apple.COM (Richard Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you tell when the user changes printers?
Message-ID: <48473@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 25 Jan 91 18:14:11 GMT
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jcocon@hubcap.clemson.edu (james c oconnor) writes:

>How do you tell from your printing code when the user changes chooser
>printers?  I'd like to warn the user that the printer has changed since
>his last "page setup" and defaults are being used.

Jim --

  Just call PRValidate (which takes a handle to the printing info record)
before you start printing. It returns TRUE if the recore had to be changed 
to accomodate a change in printers.

  (It's in volume II, page 158 of Inside Macintosh. See also Tech Note #160.)

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