Roger Upole wrote: > "Tefnet Developers" <develop...@tefnet.pl> wrote in message > news:1298974742.7642.1.camel@cacko... >> >> The driver used is the generic postscript driver (MS Publisher >> Imagesetter) provided with Windows. >> >> My problem is that changing paper size in the default printer >> preferences UI changes both members of devmode. >> >> Changing the way I do it (as shown before) does not change the paper >> size in preferences UI - and that's exactly what I need to change. >> >> I guess that if both fields are affected by the UI then I should also >> change both to achieve the desired effect, right? >> >> bye, >> Filip Zyzniewski >> Tefnet > Try adding a second GetPrinter immediately after the SetPrinter, > and see if the returned devmode has the expected values.
This kind of thing is very tricky in Windows -- much trickier than it should be -- and I've been doing Windows programming for a very, very long time. I have a wxPython application that I use to print envelopes through my Dell 3100 laser printer. The printer has a "multi-purpose tray" that I keep stocked with #10 envelopes. It's very convenient, and since my handwriting it terrible, the people I write to appreciate it as well. Recently, I upgraded from Python 2.5 to Python 2.7, and suddenly my envelope application stopped working. It would print in portrait mode on the normal paper stock, instead of selecting the envelopes in the multi-purpose tray. It required two or three hours of fairly intense hacking before I figured out a recipe to make it work again. If I had not previously been a GDI driver developer, I doubt that I could have figured out the DEVMODE magic that was required. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. _______________________________________________ python-win32 mailing list python-win32@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
