Page Setup's landscape option disabled

[mylesr]

This was working the other day, but now when I go into either File|Page Setup or the properties for a diagram, the landscape option is disabled.  I would like to set the page setup seperately for each diagram as needed.  

[mylesr]

I figured out what was going on.  My default printer is attached to a remote machine that wasn't turned on.  Without being able to talk to the printer, it wouldn't let me change the diagram orientation.  

Is this dependancy really necessary?  

[mikewhit]

This reminds me of a gripe I have with Windows printer philosophy.

For applications like EA which produce diagrams, you might wish to have a 'diagram printer' distinct from a 'report printer'.

Windows always assumes your 'default' - which might be different for different apps or even different documents (availability of colour, A3 paper, landscape/portrait, default settings, etc.).

Test cases as produced by EA work best as landscape ...

So it would be a step forward if EA could allow you to customise your 'printing defaults' (and default printers) for particular purposes.

[thomaskilian]

Yes Mike, that would really be an improvement
To overcome the "turned off printer" problem: I installed a PDF printer (freeware) and use that as default. So my printer settings are always the same. When the need for direct printing comes I switch to the appropriate printer (and I'm astonished that the layout is completely different then).