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From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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Subject: Re: Setting printer orientation?
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The solution is to add a "Setup P&rinter..." submenu under the "File" menu.
When the user chooses the submenu, call the code presented in Petzold, pp.
731, 732.

Anyway when the user selectes the "Setup P&rinter" submenu, that person will
be presented with a big dialog box allowing them to change the configuration
of the printer (including changing from portrait to landscape & vice versa).

Then when your program gets an hdc for the printer and starts issuing gdi
commands, they will be printed as requested by the user.

Note:  I know that this works fine with graphics.  I don't know how text
is handled (esp. device fonts for dot matrix printers).  However I will know
in a few days.

Terrell