Re: Best document formatting language -- MIDRANGE-L

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> I recently put an app in production and was forced
> to provide instructions to users that they had to
> manually switch to landscape mode before 
> printing. How stupid is that?

It's not only a problem with Internet Explorer.  Other
browsers have the same problem.

Developers need the ability to  set page properties
(portrait/landscape, margins, headers, footers) in
advance through JavaScript, before calling the
window.print() method.  Otherwise default settings, or
settings performed by users while in page preview mode
may cause the HTML page to print outside the currently
defined boundaries.

Based on articles at the MSDN library, Internet
Explorer page settings can be controlled through an
ActiveX interface, but evidently not via JavaScript.

If browsers were able to support page setup via
script, it seems to me that HTML would be great for
stylized portrait and landscape printing.

Nathan Andelin


                
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