R help - Sep 2004 - How to print landscape from script in Windows: dev.print(win.print, printer="local printer name", ...) does not accept horizontal=TRUE

This is a windows-specific question.

 

After generating a plot, I can print from scripts or the command line
with 

 
> dev.print(win.print,printer="local windows printer name")
 

I would like to print in landscape mode. From the menus, I can
accomplish this by changing the properties of the printer before
clicking "print".

However, I tried adding "horizontal=TRUE" to the command, but it gives
an error message:

 
> dev.print(win.print,horizontal=TRUE,printer="\\\\RhoSvr01\\HP LaserJet
8150 PCL 6")

Error in device(...) : unused argument(s) (horizontal ...)

 

I can see from ?device and then ?win.print that, sure enough, there is
no 'horizontal' parameter in win.print.

 

There are many examples like this on the help archives and in the docs,
apparently for other devices,

so I am puzzled how to accomplish what I want.

 

 

BTW,

This is on Windows XP SP2 and

 
> R.version
         _              

platform i386-pc-mingw32

arch     i386           

os       mingw32        

system   i386, mingw32  

status   Patched        

major    1              

minor    9.1            

year     2004           

month    09             

day      22             

language R              

 

Any help will be much appreciated!

 

 

David L. Reiner

 

Rho Trading

440 S. LaSalle St -- Suite 620

Chicago  IL  60605

 

312-362-4963 (voice)

312-362-4941 (fax)

 

 


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Set width and height appropriately for a landscape plot, and set landscape 
in the options for the printer driver (if supported).

Whereas the postscript device can rotate a plot by 90^o, no Windows device 
has that encoded.  Why?  Because the Windows print spooler gives you the 
option to rotate and Unix ones do not.

Or use postscript() + a PostScript printer/printer utility (e.g. GSView on 
Windows).

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 davidr at rhotrading.com wrote:
> This is a windows-specific question.
> 
>  
> 
> After generating a plot, I can print from scripts or the command line
> with 
> 
>  
> 
> > dev.print(win.print,printer="local windows printer name")
> 
>  
> 
> I would like to print in landscape mode. From the menus, I can
> accomplish this by changing the properties of the printer before
> clicking "print".
> 
> However, I tried adding "horizontal=TRUE" to the command, but it
gives
> an error message:
> 
>  
> 
> > dev.print(win.print,horizontal=TRUE,printer="\\\\RhoSvr01\\HP
LaserJet
> 8150 PCL 6")
> 
> Error in device(...) : unused argument(s) (horizontal ...)
> 
>  
> 
> I can see from ?device and then ?win.print that, sure enough, there is
> no 'horizontal' parameter in win.print.
> 
>  
> 
> There are many examples like this on the help archives and in the docs,
> apparently for other devices,
> 
> so I am puzzled how to accomplish what I want.
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> BTW,
> 
> This is on Windows XP SP2 and
> 
>  
> 
> > R.version
> 
>          _              
> 
> platform i386-pc-mingw32
> 
> arch     i386           
> 
> os       mingw32        
> 
> system   i386, mingw32  
> 
> status   Patched        
> 
> major    1              
> 
> minor    9.1            
> 
> year     2004           
> 
> month    09             
> 
> day      22             
> 
> language R              
> 
>  
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated!
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> David L. Reiner
> 
>  
> 
> Rho Trading
> 
> 440 S. LaSalle St -- Suite 620
> 
> Chicago  IL  60605
> 
>  
> 
> 312-362-4963 (voice)
> 
> 312-362-4941 (fax)
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> 
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On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:28:09 -0500, <davidr at rhotrading.com> wrote :
>This is a windows-specific question.
>
> 
>
>After generating a plot, I can print from scripts or the command line
>with 
>
> 
>
>> dev.print(win.print,printer="local windows printer name")
>
> 
>
>I would like to print in landscape mode. From the menus, I can
>accomplish this by changing the properties of the printer before
>clicking "print".
I think the easiest way to do this is to create a new printer which
defaults to landscape, and then do

 dev.print(win.print,printer="local landscape printer name")

I think it's unlikely we'll add this to win.print(); there are just
too many options in Windows printer drivers, and it's fairly easy to
set them using the Windows dialogs.

Duncan Murdoch