How To Change Page Size
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Hello:
I have been wondering why there is so much free space at the top and bottom of each page I print and I just discovered (by accident) that the program assumes I use letter size paper. As I use A4 paper, I need to change the default paper size but I can’t find anywhere how to do it. So, I’m hoping someone on the forum can help me.
Thanks in advance.Sparky
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@LonghornLou said in How To Change Page Size:
As I use A4 paper, I need to change the default paper size but I can’t find anywhere how to do it. So, I’m hoping someone on the forum can help me.
I’m going to say that is a function of the Windows Print system, not Notepad++. Notepad++ will just send the stream of characters to the Windows Print system for printing, it’s that system that will determine where page breaks occur. I note that it can send some basic print options such as margins, header & footer and background colour, but that seems to be about all you can control in Notepad++
So look at your default printer and the default paper for that printer.
Terry
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@Terry-R Thanks for taking the time to answer. Here’s why I think it must be np++. Earlier today, instead of printing as a PDF file, I accidentally printed to my printer. When I got to the printer, it was waiting for me to put Letter sized paper in the multipurpose tray, something I rarely do.
I also believe that np++ needs to know when to put out the top-of-page and bottom-of-page information
Do you know if there is a config or similar file which np++ uses for keeping track of information?
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@Louis-Ayers said in How To Change Page Size:
When I got to the printer, it was waiting for me to put Letter sized paper in the multipurpose tray, something I rarely do.
So what is the default paper size for the printer? Please look at the printer settings and confirm which paper size is the default.
You see, with Word and other word processing apps, they have enough smarts to tell the printer which paper size they expect. Notepad++ goal is to do text editing and not to send paper size info; whilst it might be something it could do; I doubt it is. And I for one have never seen any paper size setting in Notepad++.
Terry
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@Terry-R said in How To Change Page Size:
I for one have never seen any paper size setting in Notepad++.
That’s because, as you’ve said, Notepad++ just uses the standard Windows print dialog. That OS-standard dialog has the ability to select which printer to use, and to click the “preferences” button to change things like page size.
@Louis-Ayers said,
Do you know if there is a config or similar file which np++ uses for keeping track of information?
There is not. Notepad++ doesn’t track that. The Windows OS stores the information about your printer.
Once you have set the preferences, when you hit the “Print” button in the Print dialog, Windows gives some information to Notepad++, and Notepad++ replies with the data formatted in the way that Windows needs to print the document given the current OS printer settings.
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@PeterJones said in How To Change Page Size:
Once you have set the preferences, when you hit the “Print” button in the Print dialog, Windows gives some information to Notepad++, and Notepad++ replies with the data formatted in the way that Windows needs to print the document given the current OS printer settings.
There is also the “Print Now” option which looks like it bypasses the OS print dialog and just sends the job to the default printer which I presume then uses the default settings.
I don’t know when this was added to NPP, but it’s not referenced in the online manual (that I can find). Is it worth a reference there?
Terry
