Changing Print Options

[Adrian]

Hi,

I have an asp.net (v2) webpage with has a print button on
it, I would like to change two local print settings automatically when it is
pressed and change them back after it has printed. The settings I want to
change are portrait to landscape and to select print background colours and
images.

Can this be done? if so how?

Thanks

[Eliyahu Goldin]

You can set print background colors and images. You can do it either with
css styles (google on something like "css print background" and you will
find a lot of articles on that) or with javascript events onbeforeprint and
onafterprint.

You can't change to landscape since it is a local printer's setting which
you can't set from a web page unless you allow a special security or employ
an ActiveX.
--
Eliyahu Goldin,
Software Developer & Consultant
Microsoft MVP [ASP.NET]
http://msmvps.com/blogs/egoldin
http://usableasp.net
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Hi,

I have an asp.net (v2) webpage with has a print button on
it, I would like to change two local print settings automatically when it
is pressed and change them back after it has printed. The settings I want
to change are portrait to landscape and to select print background colours
and images.

Can this be done? if so how?

Thanks

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Hello,

You cannot change client-side printer settings from browser JS code.

"Adrian" wrote:

Hi,

I have an asp.net (v2) webpage with has a print button on
it, I would like to change two local print settings automatically when it is
pressed and change them back after it has printed. The settings I want to
change are portrait to landscape and to select print background colours and
images.

Can this be done? if so how?

Thanks