Re: Setting active printer in MS Word 2004?
Re: Setting active printer in MS Word 2004?
- Subject: Re: Setting active printer in MS Word 2004?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:22:30 -0800
On 11/28/04 9:54 AM, "John C. Welch" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/26/2004 07:19, "Richard Rönnbäck" <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Trying to change the active printer using Visual Basic returns an error
>> saying
>> it is a read-only property on the Macintosh OS, so I assume the same goes for
>> AS and that the dictionary is wrong.
>>
>> But I hope that it is not, and that I am
>
> The active printer is an OS setting, not a word setting. So, what you need
> to do is use the Printer Setup Utility's dictionary and set the current
> printer to printer "printername" or do shell script with lpadmin
Very true. But since the Word VBA and AppleScript dictionary include the
'active printer' application property, the MS developers should either
"connect it up" to the OS function or, at the least, the AS dictionary and
Reference should also specify that it's an r/o property. I'll bug that.
>
> Setting up printers requires you to use shell, (an area where OS 9 is still
> beating OS X), and if you want to set up network settings, I recommend
> learning Cocoa, or just using ARD.
What do you mean OS 9 beats OS X using 'shell', John. What sort of "shell"
would that be? Obviously not a Unix system shell...
--
Paul Berkowitz
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