printing: landscape instead of portrait

[Gregg O'Donnell]

I'm using MIME::Lite to send a wide email, which is formatted as HTML (could be formatted as text if needed, or as an attachment). How do I control the printing to orient the email to an 11 X 8 1/2 (landscape/horizontal) style instead of 8 1/2 X 11 (portrait/vertical)?


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[Daniel Staal]

--On Friday, October 31, 2003 9:24 AM -0800 Gregg O'Donnell
<gpod363@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I'm using MIME::Lite to send a wide email, which is formatted as
> HTML (could be formatted as text if needed, or as an attachment).
> How do I control the printing to orient the email to an 11 X 8 1/2
> (landscape/horizontal) style instead of 8 1/2 X 11
> (portrait/vertical)?

In theory you could use CSS to format the HTML to be oriented to the
landscape mode, but I don't know of any mail readers (or browsers for
that matter) that would support it.

Short answer: you don't. The user controls how an email/web page is
printed.

If it really needs to be landscape when printed then the layout of
the rest is likely important too. For exact layouts like that I
would use PDF. HTML can come close, and is better in most cases, but
if you need to specify how it prints exactly nothing matches PDF.

Daniel T. Staal

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