Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!daemon From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Re: Word Perfect -> Word for Windows Message-ID: <1991Feb17.182435.14497@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@watserv1.waterloo.edu Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group References: <5900@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Feb15.173709.6780@eng.umd.edu> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 1991 18:24:35 GMT Lines: 23 John R. Burgoyne writes: > My big gripe with W4W is that the printer tray, orientation, and paper > size are outside the scope of the program and are instead part of the > Windows operating system. No, they are *NOT* outside the scope of the program. Any application can call ExtDeviceMode() or use printer escape codes (such as GETSETORIENT) to manipulate the printer. It is only required to conform to the Windows device-independence guidelines and not muck with the device directly. That Word for Windows does not support such features reflects only on that product, not on Windows itself. > Besides, this doesn't solve the problem of having a document > associated with a printer and a unique printer port. Personally, I dislike *this* approach. To me, a document is just that, and it should print on any printer to the best of that device's capabilities... I believe WP's document device-dependency stems from its inability to use device-independent fonts and attributes... [ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]