Set printer paper size from HTML?

I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting. Is there any way to set
a page's preferred printed paper size from HTML?
Portable if possible, but IE-only would be better than nothing.

Al Grant wrote:

I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting.

What if the user doesn't have A3 paper?

--
Berg

Al Grant wrote:

I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting. Is there any way to set
a page's preferred printed paper size from HTML?
Portable if possible, but IE-only would be better than nothing.

Definitely not in HTML. In CSS3, yes, but this isn't an official
recommendation yet and I doubt it has sufficient browser support,
particularly in IE, though I could be wrong.

Harlan Messinger wrote:

Al Grant wrote:
I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting. Is there any way to set
a page's preferred printed paper size from HTML?
Portable if possible, but IE-only would be better than nothing.

Definitely not in HTML. In CSS3, yes, but this isn't an official
recommendation yet and I doubt it has sufficient browser support,
particularly in IE, though I could be wrong.

I'm not wrong. IE7 doesn't support it.

In article <606p8tF1nu0omU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>,
Bergamot <bergamot (AT) visi (DOT) com> wrote:

Al Grant wrote:
I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting.

What if the user doesn't have A3 paper?

What if the user does have A3 paper, but wants to print on
A4 paper anyway? Maybe they even prefer to do a "two up"
layout to save paper, so each page is effectively A5?

There's a reason that these things are called USER preferences!

On 1/28/2008 11:25 AM, Al Grant wrote:

I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting. Is there any way to set
a page's preferred printed paper size from HTML?
Portable if possible, but IE-only would be better than nothing.

Being in the U.S., I have letterhead and legal sizes of paper but no A3.
Do you mean that I should not print your page?

As for your "IE-only would be better than nothing", the trend is that
IE-only might someday become nothing. IE's share of the browser market
has been declining steadily for the past four years.

--
David Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

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Then use SeaMonkey. Go to <http://www.seamonkey-project.org/>.

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:25:05 -0800 (PST) from Al Grant
<algrant (AT) myrealbox (DOT) com>:

I have a 'printable' button to generate printable output
and want this to use A3 if available, irrespective of the
user's default printer setting.

Stop wanting that. What size paper I use is my business, not yours.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
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On Jan 29, 11:52 am, "usenet.su... (AT) gmail (DOT) com" <usenet.su... (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

You are always wrong because *your* an idiot.
lol Irony much?

On 28 Jan, 19:38, Bergamot <berga... (AT) visi (DOT) com> wrote:

What if the user doesn't have A3 paper?

Then the page should throw some degree on exception on printing,
possibly recoverable for manual intervention.

This isn't about selfishly excluding Americans who only have letter
and legal paper, it's about auto-switching printers with multiple
paper trays. It's a useful feature - nothing at all wrong with it.


AFAIK, it's not possible (for good, practical, standards-based
solutions available today). Future CSS will do it one day, in the
meantime there are IE-only solutions using an ActiveX control (start
looking with ScriptX from MeadCo)

On 28 Jan, 22:11, David Stone <no.em... (AT) domain (DOT) invalid> wrote:

What if the user does have A3 paper, but wants to print on
A4 paper anyway? *Maybe they even prefer to do a "two up"
layout to save paper, so each page is effectively A5?
There's a reason that these things are called USER preferences!

I and colleagues are the users and this is how we would
prefer to do it. The pages contain machine-generated reports.
The HTML specifies the fonts, font sizes, colors etc. to
maximise readability; specifying a paper size preference
would avoid paper wastage when people forget to select A3
and get something unreadably small.

Why the assumption that I'm setting up a public website
that has to be acceptable to the US market? It seems to
reflect a narrow view of what HTML can be used for.