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Set printer paper size from HTML? Al Grant 01-28-2008
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Posted by Stan Brown on January 31, 2008, 3:56 am
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Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:56:47 -0800 (PST) from Al Grant
> > Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:25:05 -0800 (PST) from Al Grant
> > > 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.
>
> What I put on my pages is my business, not yours.

That's irrelevant, unless you're planning to provide the paper I
print on.

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Posted by Dr J R Stockton on February 2, 2008, 11:03 am
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It seems that my original response was not properly distributed.
Here it is :

In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html message <MPG.
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9@news.individual.net>, Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:56:14, Stan Brown
>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:56:47 -0800 (PST) from Al Grant
>> > Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:25:05 -0800 (PST) from Al Grant
>> > > 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.
>>
>> What I put on my pages is my business, not yours.
>
>That's irrelevant, unless you're planning to provide the paper I
>print on.

If you do not want to print on A3, then you merely need to not use the
button.

I don't recall the OP saying that he would inhibit other ways of
printing, though he does seem to expect that his users will generally
choose this button if it can be provided.

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