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From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Remembering Page Setup problem.  HELP PLEASE.
Message-ID: <14033@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 91 18:06:46 GMT
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In article <1991Jun9.222248.3377@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> 
ciru@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
> 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?

Here's the basic problem, and it has nothing to do specifically with 
HyperCard:
When you change the Page Setup information, the print record is saved with 
the stack. If you change printers, the printing manager will notice that 
the printers are incompatible and will RESET the print record, including 
your Page Setup info.
One could say that it's a limitation of the Print Manager that it doesn't 
remember specific feature requests in Page Setup and try to preserve them 
if the printer changes. On the other hand, since the defaults for the page 
geometry and every other aspect could be totally different for another 
printer chosen (including that the page is defaulted to be wider than it 
is tall), there isn't an easy solution.

The only way I can think of getting around this problem would be to change 
the defaults for the printer drivers you are using so that they defaulted 
to landscape. There was an Apple utility written in 1983 (which still 
works!) called Printer which, among other things, would allow you to 
change the default page setup information. I only ever tried the utility 
with Apple printer drivers though, so who knows if it would work for third 
party drivers. Where to get hold of this utility, I do not know.


Martin Gannholm
Apple Computer

Exclaimer!!!   I never said it...Nobody heard me say it...You can't prove 
anything!