[thelist] Setting a printer to landscape from code

Timothy J. Luoma luomat at operamail.com
Fri Sep 19 14:17:47 CDT 2003


On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:40:27 -0500, Patrick Forsythe <fuse at toto.net> wrote:

> I have a customer who against our better wishes wants to be able to have 
> his customers click a button on his page and print out a page in 
> landscape. Is this even possible? if so how? I have tried the javascript 
> window.print but all that does is bring up a print dialog screen and 
> that is not what he wants.

There was a way in CSS 2.0.... Opera did it, but no one else did.... 
Apparently it won't even be in 2.1

So I'd say no, there is no way to force it.

TjL


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