N-up

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Howard Kaikow

Using the API, in VB or VBA, is there a way to set the value for N-Up, i.e.,
the
number of pages that get printed on 1 side of a sheet of paper?

I do not want to display the print setup dialog, just want to set the value
for N-Up.

I can fake it with SendKeys, but that is ugly as it makes the dialog flash
by, not to mention that the key codes used may be language/implementation
dependent.

There's gotta be a way to do this via code.
 
Maybe not! I use Access VBA more than anything else, and Access (2000
on) has quite a rich Printer control set, but it can't detect or use
N-Up capability. I think that this was originally a function of
PostScript but was subsequently incorporated into non-PostScript
printers as a "useful capability". It's not part of the base
definition of a Windows printer. It would be nice to have a way of
controlling it without using SendKeys, though!

Using the API, in VB or VBA, is there a way to set the value for N-Up, i.e.,
the
number of pages that get printed on 1 side of a sheet of paper?

I do not want to display the print setup dialog, just want to set the value
for N-Up.

I can fake it with SendKeys, but that is ugly as it makes the dialog flash
by, not to mention that the key codes used may be language/implementation
dependent.

There's gotta be a way to do this via code.
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Peter R. Fletcher
 
I'm keeping away from SendKeys.

See my recent posting "Print dialog: What to print drop down list" in the
microsoft.public.word.vba.general newsgroup.

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Peter R. Fletcher said:
Maybe not! I use Access VBA more than anything else, and Access (2000
on) has quite a rich Printer control set, but it can't detect or use
N-Up capability. I think that this was originally a function of
PostScript but was subsequently incorporated into non-PostScript
printers as a "useful capability". It's not part of the base
definition of a Windows printer. It would be nice to have a way of
controlling it without using SendKeys, though!




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Peter R. Fletcher


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