"Best" way to set print properties

[Mark B]

I have a template file that I've developed for drawings within my company.
The default layout is an 11x17 drawing page formatted to fit onto two 8.5x11
printed pages.

I need to offer two additional print layouts (a single 11x17 page and a
single 8.5x11 page) and would like to automate the layout setting for the
user. I've developed two different ways to automate setting the print layout
to one of these three settings. I have written VBA code to do this, and it
works fine (macros). The other solution I developed was to use a custom
shape, allow custom properties, let the user pick a layout from a right-click
menu, and have the Shapesheet of the page reference the custom properties of
the custom shape. The shape is set to be a non-printing shape. This works
fine as well.

The issue that I have is that neither solution will work unless the end user
is using Visio (as opposed to using Visio Viewer / Internet Explorer).

Does anyone have recommendations on a way that I could offer an automated
way to set the print layout and have it work for users that don't have the
full version of Visio installed?

 

[Paul Herber]

Does anyone have recommendations on a way that I could offer an automated
way to set the print layout and have it work for users that don't have the
full version of Visio installed?

Whatever you do with this will not work with the viewer, the viewer
will only show the pint layout as set within Visio, you can't change
it in the viewer.

 

[David J Parker]

Perhaps you could automate the export to pdf or xps files?