Posted by Jukka K. Korpela on 07/05/06 07:04

wtuck@yebo.co.za <wtuck@yebo.co.za> scripsit:

> I want to default my print orientation to landscape when a user try to
> print some of my webpages and to portrait for other.

You cannot. The 'size' property in CSS could be used, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/page.html#page-size-prop
if only it had been implemented in browsers.

> It should not be
> necessary for the user to chnage it.

You cannot even know whether the user's browser and printer are capable of
printing in landscape orientation and in portrait orientation.

> Is this possible?


No.

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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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