Tech Note: Selecting Paper Sizes on Windows
Products:
PrintOMatic Lite Xtra 1.6.5, PrintOMatic Xtra 1.6.5
Platforms:
Windows (all versions)
The PrintOMatic Xtra uses the current printer driver to determine the default paper size for your documents. You can control this setting in a number of ways: Selecting a Printer Driver
On Windows systems, you select your printer driver using the Printer Control Panel. When you open this control panel, you will be prompted with the option of selecting a printer driver (the method of this selection varies between versions of the Windows OS.) Once you have selected a printer driver, you can access the Properties for that printer driver. In the Properties dialog, you will find an option for selecting paper size.
Unlike the Macintosh OS, here you can specify the default paper size to be used by PrintOMatic Xtra. On Windows, PrintOMatic Xtra gets all of its page size and orientation information from the printer driver that is currently active. After changing your printer driver settings you need to restart Director or your runtime application so that PrintOMatic Xtra will recognize them.
Using SavePageSetup and LoadPageSetup
There is no equivalent to the savePageSetup and loadPageSetup commands for Windows. This is due to the way that the Windows OS functions.
PHDL Resources
There is no equivalent to the PHDL resources and PrintOMatic Preferences file for Windows.
Summary
In short, the only way to set the paper size to a non-default setting is to either manually change the paper size using the Printer Control Panel options or to display the Page Setup dialog using the doPageSetup command provided by PrintOMatic Xtra.
