[reportlab-users] Automatically set Page Scaling and Print?

[Andy Robinson]

On 01/10/2007, kevin <kevin at booksys.com> wrote:

> Hi all,

>

> We use reportlab to generate printing labels and barcode lists.  At the

> moment we are fervently telling people to turn off "Page Scaling" (to

> None) before printing their documents.

>

> Is there a way that this could be set up automatically while generating

> the reportlab document?  I have seen PDF documents that do this.  For

> instance,

> http://www.outback.com/pressroom/pdf/restaurantnews_march2005.pdf shows

> that the Page Scaling can be turned off on the Print dialog.


That's really good news if Adobe has added a feature for this.  We'll
look at this file and the PDF specification and try to figure out what
option to add.  It's been a pain for everyone who ever tried to do
labels in the last 6 years...

Thanks,

Andy


>

> Any help is greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Kevin at booksys.com

>

>

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