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    WSitshimagain
    AskWoody Lounger
    June 21, 2004 at 11:06 am #406425

    Dumb question: since most monitors are in ‘landscape’ orientation, and the IE ‘Print’ command tries to print what’s on the screen, why isn’t the default page setup orientation landscape, too?
    Ans since it’s not, how can it make it so?

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    • WSHansV
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 21, 2004 at 11:32 am #842720

      As far as I have been able to determine from earlier posts on this subjects here and in the newsgroups, Internet Explorer does not store the page orientation between sessions, so it defaults to the default page setting of your printer each time you restart Interner Explorer.

      If you need to use the vertical scroll bar to see all the contents of a web page, all of it will be printed, not just one screenful, so printing in landscape is not necessary.

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      • WSitshimagain
        AskWoody Lounger
        June 21, 2004 at 12:46 pm #842738

        Agreed on most of this, but sometimes with some pages it cuts off the right-hand ends of lines of text: setting page setup as landscape ‘cures’ this.
        Might be down to bad page design?

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        • WSHansV
          AskWoody Lounger
          June 21, 2004 at 1:22 pm #842751

          IE tries to resize the component parts of the web page to fit onto a printer page, but depending on the design that can be more or less successful.

          You can, of course, set landscape manually.

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        • WSHansV
          AskWoody Lounger
          June 21, 2004 at 1:22 pm #842752

          IE tries to resize the component parts of the web page to fit onto a printer page, but depending on the design that can be more or less successful.

          You can, of course, set landscape manually.

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      • WSitshimagain
        AskWoody Lounger
        June 21, 2004 at 12:46 pm #842739

        Agreed on most of this, but sometimes with some pages it cuts off the right-hand ends of lines of text: setting page setup as landscape ‘cures’ this.
        Might be down to bad page design?

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    • WSHansV
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 21, 2004 at 11:32 am #842721

      As far as I have been able to determine from earlier posts on this subjects here and in the newsgroups, Internet Explorer does not store the page orientation between sessions, so it defaults to the default page setting of your printer each time you restart Interner Explorer.

      If you need to use the vertical scroll bar to see all the contents of a web page, all of it will be printed, not just one screenful, so printing in landscape is not necessary.

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    • WSviking33
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 21, 2004 at 2:43 pm #842800

      Just change the Printer to default to Landscape mode, if that the way you want it.

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      • WSHansV
        AskWoody Lounger
        June 21, 2004 at 2:47 pm #842803

        That should work, but it would affect printing from other applications too, which may not be disirable… Anyway, it’s up to John.

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        • WSitshimathome
          AskWoody Lounger
          June 21, 2004 at 8:40 pm #843041

          Thank you, both. So Now I Know.

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          • WSKenK
            AskWoody Lounger
            June 21, 2004 at 10:52 pm #843078

            Hi John

            Printer Express is a great little program that makes it very easy to quickly change your default “Printer” target on the fly.
            Try it for FREE then decide if it’s worth the asking price of $12.00US.

            Keep in mind rhat you can “Add” a printer for each printer setup (portrait, landscape, draft quality, photo quality, grey scale, colour, etc,) and very easily set any one as default as required. You can also “Add” any device that you can “print” to.

            Have a Great day!!!
            Ken

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          • WSKenK
            AskWoody Lounger
            June 21, 2004 at 10:52 pm #843079

            Hi John

            Printer Express is a great little program that makes it very easy to quickly change your default “Printer” target on the fly.
            Try it for FREE then decide if it’s worth the asking price of $12.00US.

            Keep in mind rhat you can “Add” a printer for each printer setup (portrait, landscape, draft quality, photo quality, grey scale, colour, etc,) and very easily set any one as default as required. You can also “Add” any device that you can “print” to.

            Have a Great day!!!
            Ken

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        • WSitshimathome
          AskWoody Lounger
          June 21, 2004 at 8:40 pm #843042

          Thank you, both. So Now I Know.

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      • WSHansV
        AskWoody Lounger
        June 21, 2004 at 2:47 pm #842804

        That should work, but it would affect printing from other applications too, which may not be disirable… Anyway, it’s up to John.

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    • WSTonyE
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 22, 2004 at 6:36 am #843196

      You could always change to a better browser. Firefox remembers your preferences in page setup. (Plus a few other improvements over IE)

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    • WSTonyE
      AskWoody Lounger
      June 22, 2004 at 6:36 am #843197

      You could always change to a better browser. Firefox remembers your preferences in page setup. (Plus a few other improvements over IE)

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