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We are doing a small application in Visual Basic 2.0 Pro, to run on
Windows 3.1 clients in a Lan Manager Network.

Reports from our application need to be printed in landscape orientation
on a Nec PostScript laser printer. This is easy by selecting landscape
mode in Control Panel/Printer. However, everything else the users print
should be portrait, and they of course don't want to manually change the
preferences all the time.

There seem to be two choices here:

Let Visual Basic still use the "Printer" object, (which only works on
the default printer). For every report in our application, set the printer
to landscape, and reset it afterwards.

Forget about the Printer object, stuff the default printer, use Windows
calls to get/change device context and don't mess with the default printer
whatsoever.

Which is best? Or is there a better way of doing it?

In "your best solution" - how do you do it? (I have looked only briefly
on the GetDeviceContext, ExtDeviceMode, Escape and other calls)

Pro's and con's?

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 Tommy Petersson              tope@enea.se              Enea Data AB, Sweden
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