[R] How to print landscape from script in Windows: dev.print(win.print, printer="local printer name", ...) does not accept horizontal=TRUE

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Set width and height appropriately for a landscape plot, and set landscape 
in the options for the printer driver (if supported).

Whereas the postscript device can rotate a plot by 90^o, no Windows device 
has that encoded.  Why?  Because the Windows print spooler gives you the 
option to rotate and Unix ones do not.

Or use postscript() + a PostScript printer/printer utility (e.g. GSView on 
Windows).

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 davidr at rhotrading.com wrote:

> This is a windows-specific question.
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> After generating a plot, I can print from scripts or the command line
> with 
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> > dev.print(win.print,printer="local windows printer name")
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> I would like to print in landscape mode. From the menus, I can
> accomplish this by changing the properties of the printer before
> clicking "print".
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> However, I tried adding "horizontal=TRUE" to the command, but it gives
> an error message:
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> > dev.print(win.print,horizontal=TRUE,printer="\\\\RhoSvr01\\HP LaserJet
> 8150 PCL 6")
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> Error in device(...) : unused argument(s) (horizontal ...)
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> I can see from ?device and then ?win.print that, sure enough, there is
> no 'horizontal' parameter in win.print.
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> There are many examples like this on the help archives and in the docs,
> apparently for other devices,
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> so I am puzzled how to accomplish what I want.
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> BTW,
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> This is on Windows XP SP2 and
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> > R.version
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> platform i386-pc-mingw32
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> arch     i386           
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> os       mingw32        
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> system   i386, mingw32  
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> status   Patched        
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> major    1              
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> minor    9.1            
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> year     2004           
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> month    09             
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> day      22             
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> language R              
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> Any help will be much appreciated!
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> David L. Reiner
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