mfc printing

[richk]

Is there a small block of code I can add to force (or default) to landscape orientation, no matter which network or local printer is selected?

thanks

[BobClarke]

It has to be done on a device-by-device basis, so your code needs to monitor all print requests and make the change at runtime. It is handled through the DEVMODE structure, documented in the Platform SDK docs.

// set landscape mode
DEVMODE* pDevMode = printDlg.GetDevMode();
if (pDevMode != NULL)
{
pDevMode->dmOrientation = DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE;
dc.ResetDC(pDevMode);
GlobalFree(pDevMode);
}

[richk]

thanks. Actually, I found out that if you put the following code in the WinApp module, all printers default to landscape. When the print dialog comes up, landscape is pre-checked.

{
PRINTDLG pd;
pd.lStructSize=(DWORD)sizeof(PRINTDLG);
BOOL bRet=GetPrinterDeviceDefaults(&pd);
if(bRet)
{
// protect memory handle with ::GlobalLock and ::GlobalUnlock
DEVMODE FAR *pDevMode=(DEVMODE FAR *)::GlobalLock(m_hDevMode);
// set orientation to landscape
pDevMode->dmOrientation=DMORIENT_LANDSCAPE;
::GlobalUnlock(m_hDevMode);
}
}