How to get printer info

[Sarah]

The printPaperSize property will return the selected dimensions for the 
current printer & paper. You'll have to work out from them whether the 
paper is landscape or portrait. The dimensions are in points with 72 
points per inch.

Sarah

On Tuesday, December 31, 2002, at 10:15  pm, Graham Samuel wrote:

> I feel embarrassed asking questions that must have been asked before, 
> but I've looked at the 1.1 docs, had a bit of a search with Google, 
> and browsed the excellent links provided by Richard, Ken and others, 
> but I can't find out if the Revo developer gets any feedback from the 
> 'Page Setup' dialog which can be invoked with RevShowPrintDialog, or 
> has any other access to printer parameters.
>
> AFAIK on both Mac and Windows, the dialog will return parameters to 
> the app, stating the paper size chosen by the user and the printable 
> area within the page, and probably a lot of other stuff. Clearly in 
> general one needs this info to print - even on my modest home inkjet, 
> size (chosen by the user outside the control of the application) can 
> vary from US letter to A6 card, not to mention from portrait to 
> landscape, and I need to know what the user has chosed so as to format 
> my output accordingly - but this problem must have come up many many 
> times. The Google search seemed to reveal that this was a 'blind spot' 
> in Revo 1 but might be on the wish list for version 2.0.
>
> Can anyone clarify and/or suggest workarounds, including XCFNs/DLLs 
> (provided one can get equivalent functionality on different 
> platforms)? I really have no idea what kind of printers my users will 
> be using, and I have no access to any detailed info about 2.0's report 
> printer.
>
> TIA
> Graham
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