Hello all,

Perhaps someone has the solution?

to save on ink, paper, and time, I print most of my maps in landscape and fast draft. I have to manually change these settings everytime I print, not just everytime I open a saved ptm file.

My printer options are default to fast draft, but Mappoint defaults to Normal and not draft. Where and how can I make these changes permanent within Mappoint?

Your thoughts, comments, ideas, and suggestions are most welcome.

-Jeremy

Hi,

I assume you mean the mappoint standalone application. If that the case then it probably follow the default settings in your system. Notingh to change on it as far as I know (maybe seek a little in registry ? you never know...).

If you have your own application using mappoint then you can eventually save all these settings yourself.

Hi Jeremy,

What version of MapPoint are you using? 2002,2004,2006 ? I have not heard of this difficulty before.

Eric

I'm using Map Point 2004 as a stand alone application.

-Jeremy

Hi Jeremy,

I just tryed mappoint 2004 standalone, and printer settings are saved during the lifetime of the application, but not preserved after closing it.

Correct Sir! Any suggestions as how to create those settings made permanately?

Sometimes I have the same problem within Access. I need special print settings for let's say a custom label. The solution that has worked for me is using the sendkeys function. I manuall (behind the scene) change the print settings prior to printing each document. Sendkeys is not the most stable function but it has saved me hours.

Originally Posted by hinejs

Correct Sir! Any suggestions as how to create those settings made permanately?

Hi,

Sorry I dont think it is possible. Could be there is a windows registry setting that set the default by application, but dont know and it will be a long search

Originally Posted by plevine1

Sometimes I have the same problem within Access. I need special print settings for let's say a custom label. The solution that has worked for me is using the sendkeys function. I manuall (behind the scene) change the print settings prior to printing each document. Sendkeys is not the most stable function but it has saved me hours.

Hi,

But sendKeys is a dotNet class. Do you mean external program to set the settings ?

Can the setting be saved in a ptm? Then maybe you just need to replace the default map ptm under program files?

Eric