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From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Landscape printing?
Message-ID: <407@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 89 01:29:39 GMT
References: <396@internal.Apple.COM> <824@ttrdf.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <824@ttrdf.UUCP> fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen ) writes:
>in article <396@internal.Apple.COM>, casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres) says:
>> 
>> Nothing is new here except the ability to see a flag that tells you specif-
>> ically that the user has selected landscape format.
>
>Just out of curiosity: what information does this give you that you cannot
>get from the page rectangle in the print record?

At first it seems that you can detect landscape printing because the width
will exceed the height in rPage, but then it turns out there are paper sizes,
such as envelope sizes and B5 size, that are wider than they are high in
normal orientation.

In other words, those beloved words "landscape" and "portrait" are misnomers
since we're not really talking about the shape of the page at all but about
whether or not the image is rotated.

That's why a couple of years ago we eliminated these words from the dialogs
and went to icon buttons instead... after rejecting a lot of other word pairs
like normal/rotated and upright/sideways.

David Casseres