Printing in landscape -- can't be done on mac OS X

[Stephen Barncard]

back in the Roaring 80's I used to use John A. Nairn's Printreport

  that was a wonderful tool to get access to all the printer stuff. 
There was no way to get or set just one parameter such as orientation 
directly but he did provide a way to save all printing parameters by 
using the data record returned by his Page Setup command.

You would do a page setup and put the returned value in memory 
somewhere (hidden field, etc) so you could just do a no-dialog PRINT 
using the stored array parameters. Perhaps there is still a way.....

Apple has always been a bit mysterious about printing.



sqb


>
>To print in landscape mode, set the printRotated to true before printing:
>
>   set the printRotated to true
>   print card "My Card"
>
>   Note: The printRotated property has no effect on Mac OS and OS X systems.
>To print in landscape mode on Mac OS or OS X, use the answer printer or
>revShowPrintDialog command to display the Page Setup dialog box before
>printing, then choose the Landscape option in the dialog box.
>
>In other words if you are using Mac OS X you cannot automatically switch
>between landscape and portrait mode although this makes me wonder...how do
>programs that automatically do this like acrobat pro manage to do it?
>  > Blue Water Maritime