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From: ciru@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Remembering Page Setup problem.  HELP PLEASE.
Message-ID: <1991Jun9.222248.3377@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Date: 9 Jun 91 14:22:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: fennel.1991Jun9.222248.3377
Organization: University of Western Australia
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I'm currently running a group of stacks over a network which require the use
of both an Imagewriter II and a couple of laser printers.  There are various
reports in the stacks, several of which require to be printed out with the
page setup in the 'landscape' orientation.

To simplify matters for the users of the stacks, I have been using Frederic
Rinaldi's excellent Chooser externals, which allow me to transparently choose
and change printers according to the particular report that the user wishes to
print.  (I thoroughly recommend these externals!)

The only problem is however, (and this would occur whether I was using these
externals or not), when a printer is changed, Hypercard doesn't remember (?)
the page setup that the report was originally designed in, and reports which
are meant to print in landscape orientation will print in the 'upright'
orientation.  Am I missing something simple here, apart from the the usual way
of having to manually select landscape orientation from the page setup dialog
box as you would normally when changing a printer?

Is there any way to define within a script (in other words, transparently to
the user) which orientation a report will print, or am I really asking for the
existence of an external here?

Thanks in advance for any replies or advice.

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* Mike Schon-Hegrad                                       *   	  
* Research Officer                                        *
* Western Australian Research Institute for Child Health  *
* Princess Margaret Hospital                              *
* Thomas Street, Subiaco                                  *
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