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Re: Sticky scaling? (for printing)

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg102540] Re: Sticky scaling? (for printing)
• From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:38:04 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <h5r8e9$l6u$1@smc.vnet.net>

On Aug 11, 3:00 am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Possible to set the default value for the Printing magnification for a
> given notebook so that this value will be 'sticky' and remain set for
> that particular notebook even after you close the notebook and/or quite
> Mathematica?
>
> [By "Printing magnification"  I mean the value of whatever parameter it
> is that will function the same as does the "Scale: " value that you can
> set using the File >> Printing Settings >> Page Setup dialog box -- that
> is, magnify the size of type and graphics appearing on the printed
> pages, while keeping the page size the same, so that line breaks and
> page breaks are recalculated and come earlier than if you hadn't done
> this.
>
> If you magnify the printed output using this menu command, (a) it
> doesn't stick to the document, and (b) it affects the printing of all
> other notebooks also, which may not be what you want.]

SetOptions[EvaluationNotebook[], Magnification -> 2]

Mike