many aspects of the printed output. Most of the attributes are defined in the ISO 10175 and POSIX 1387.4
standards, and are broken into a few different pools.
and remain unchanged until the server recycles or is restarted.
a description of the capabilities of the printer and driver combination. These attributes include a
description of the available and supported media types, and the supported page description languages
among others.
orientation (i.e. portrait or landscape). These attributes can be read and written by both the application and
the driver. Default values for these attributes are set by the driver (possibly using the provided utility
routines) when a new print context is initialized. The user or application can modify these attributes to
communicate such choices to the driver. It is the driver's responsibility to communicate these attributes to
the specific printer, presumably by embedding the appropriate page description language strings in the
output. Changes in these attributes may cause the driver to perform operations such as resizing a window
referenced by a subsequent
for example, an application to print a particular page in landscape orientation in the middle of a document
which is otherwise in portrait orientation. These attributes can be read and written by both the application
and the driver. It is the driver's responsibility to communicate these attributes to the specific printer,
typically by embedding the appropriate page description language strings in the output. Changes in these
attributes may cause the driver to perform operations such as resizing a window to fit the specified media
size or orientation when
page contents. These attributes can be read and written by both the application and the driver, however the
driver should be able to be blissfully unaware of these attributes if the driver chooses to utilize the