8.4. Page Setup

The Page Setup dialog, which you can summon with most applications through File → Page Setup (Shift--P), lets you define paper size, orientation, and scale options. These options apply for the current application; at the start of the printing process, it consults them in order to figure out the dimensions of the rectangle that it will draw to for each page. The system remembers them until the application quits—the next time you launch that application, Page Setup's values will return to their defaults.

The standard dialog contains the following controls, as seen in Figure 8-8: