> I am trying to print a document from a Windows Service
>
> Eveything works, apart from I can't set the page settings into Landscape!
> It
> always prints portrait.
>
> If I host my code in a normal app (not a Windows Service) it works OK!
>
> Could this be a security issue? I see that Microsoft use ResetDC to set
> the
> page options. However, no exception is thrown - so this method does not
> fail.
>
> I tried running the Windows Service under my own login account, but to no
> avail.
>
> The code is below...any ideas....?
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul Wardle
>
>
>
> private void QueryPageSettings(object sender, QueryPageSettingsEventArgs
> e)
> {
>
> e.PageSettings.Landscape = this.Landscape;
>
> }
>
>

"Nate Smith" <YeahRight@GoAway.com> wrote in message
news:uGBWOShCFHA.2632@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>I am printing landscape pages from within a service with no problem. I am
>setting the e.PageSettings.Landscape to true or false in the OnPrintPage
>handler as well as on the QueryPageSettings. I have had little luck
>setting things in QueryPageSettings, btw. For instance, you can't set the
>Duplex property from within the QueryPageSettings handler. So I don't
>actually know if that is doing the trick, but if you set it within the
>PrintPage handler, it should work.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nate Smith
>
> private void OnPrintPage( object obj, PrintPageEventArgs e )
>
> {
>
> .....
>
> e.PageSettings.Landscape = true;
>
> ....
>
> }
>
>
>> I am trying to print a document from a Windows Service
>>
>> Eveything works, apart from I can't set the page settings into Landscape!
>> It
>> always prints portrait.
>>
>> If I host my code in a normal app (not a Windows Service) it works OK!
>>
>> Could this be a security issue? I see that Microsoft use ResetDC to set
>> the
>> page options. However, no exception is thrown - so this method does not
>> fail.
>>
>> I tried running the Windows Service under my own login account, but to no
>> avail.
>>
>> The code is below...any ideas....?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Paul Wardle
>>
>>
>>
>> private void QueryPageSettings(object sender, QueryPageSettingsEventArgs
>> e)
>> {
>>
>> e.PageSettings.Landscape = this.Landscape;
>>
>> }
>>
>>
>
>