Cannot Save Page Orientation to a Layout

[Bigun]

It is minor, but a hassle for our users here to have to change page orientation when they print.

I went into layout mode and changed the orientation, but the change doesn't seem to "stick". Is there another place to change page orientation?

[bcooney]

Welcome.

Page orientation is file specific. That is, one file=one orientation. It is not layout specific.

If you want to change the orientation when you print a layout, you need to write a print script that uses the Print Setup Restore script step and the Print script step.

[Bigun]

That stinks. I guess that could be a feature enhancement for the next version.

[RodSierra]

You can make things a bit easier for users by having a page setup preference script, then call this script (no dialog) after any special page setups during print routines. I use this and allow dialog on this in the preference area of my solution, so after running a special report or form it resets to the preference page setup.