HTML report orientation in LAbVIEW while printing

[pawel]

Hello All

To print HTML pages in LabVIEW 6.1 I am using activeX web browser. I would like to print html document in "landscape" orientation, but program keeps printing in portrait orientation.

How to change an orientation of my printer programatically?

Thanks in advance.
Pawel

[mikeporter]

Th print orientation for a LV front panell is actually stored in the VI. Print the front panel manually once with the orientation rotated to landscape. When you finish printing you'll notice that the VI is now marked as being changed. Save it and everytime you print it will be in landscape orientation.

Mike...

[pawel]

Hi Mike

I am not printing the front pannel, I am printing the external HTML document using the IExplorel activeX.

Pawel

[mikeporter]

Ok. In the past I have embedded a browser window into the LV front panel and it sounded like that is what you were doing. I don't know how to tell Explorer to reorient the printing. Is it perhaps a program default that you can set? Mike...

[pawel]

Yes, exactly.
Due to lack of other choices, I am actually using the printer defaults, but I do not like this aproach.
Thanks anyway.

regards
Pawel

[JuanCarlos]

Hi,

I don't have the specifics, but I think you can use the Windows SDK functions to change the orientation of the page when printing.

I don't think Internet Explorer has any activeX functionality that allows you to set this. There is a link here with some information that you can use:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnscrpt/html/dhtmlprint.asp

basically they created a free script utility that you could use. Another solution would be to show the user a print dialog, but I don't think that is what you are looking for.

I hope any of this helps,

Juan Carlos
N.I.
PageSetupDlg

[pawel]

Hello
Yes, that is very interesting, especially the scriptX activeX to control the printing. Thank you.

Pawel